No real surprise here, and more of the same is inevitable. Lots more.

Absolutely the LAST thing this overblown nonsense called the 
"Quadricentennial Celebration" is about is real history or historians.

What it's concerned with is "Heritage Tourism"[sic], mock 'battles', 
patriotic bloviation and most importantly its all about making money.


PS: "proactive" is not a word, despite what Steven Covey would have you 
believe.


>Date:    Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:57:25 EST
>From:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Quadricentennial Fallout in 2007
>
>Dear List Members,
>
>I am displeased, disappointed and saddened to read in the Daily  Freeman that
>Florence Prehn, Town of Esopus Historian, was not reappointed  because "the
>upcoming [Quadricentennial] events would have required too much  work." 
>[snip]
>