News on Youtube Feb 22 2018

Every year for Presidents Day-- in particular General Washington's birthday--

we hold a celebration here at Washington Crossing Historic Park. It is geared

toward young families, so, specifically for families who have young children and

we have a series of demonstrations around the park. Children can experience

the blacksmith shop, they can experience quill pen writing, 18th century

children's games, hearthside cooking. We have two sections of the park. Where the

Washington Crossing bridge is currently, that was actually the Ferry point, so

that's most likely where Washington would have crossed. It's also one of the

narrower points of the Delaware River and he was able to get across with his

army of 2,400 men and all of the accoutrements that they needed,

their cannon, artillery, horses, everything... the carts that they needed to take with

them for that surprise attack on Trenton. We also manage Bauman's Hill Tower,

which is 125 foot observation deck which is absolutely stunning during the leaf

season and we also manage the Thompson Neely farm and grist mill. The main

section of the house is the kitchen. There's a musket in the corner and near

the door where it would have been kept if the officer need to-- or a soldier

needed to-- race out. Some uniforms draped over chairs. One of the rooms is

interpreted as an officer's headquarters. It's a mix of what military officer

would have been seeing and using, but also how do the family live and manage

their business and their family life while boarding these gentlemen.

Here on site the lower section of the park is the McConkey's Ferry Inn. The inn is

interpreted as a tavern, but this is the commercial kitchen-- a space that would

have been where travelers would have waited to cross the Delaware River at

the ferry point. It's a very large open hearth and they would have been using

this fireplace to serve meals to guests. The visitors center has a 250 seat

auditorium. We also have a gallery. The exhibit, right now, we have two Brown

Bess muskets that are part of the Pennsylvania collection. Cups and saucers

and things that you would have seen in a common soldiers hopper sack. We also have

a very extensive furniture collection here. Chairs, a lot of them from

Philadelphia from 1740 through 1790. Armoirs and chests of drawers, several desks

and there's also an exhibit in there on soldiers health right now.

This display is what a sick room would have perhaps looked like. If the family

was lucky and the soldiers were lucky to have a bed to be on, it would have been a

rope bed with a straw mattress and these are some of the tools that surgeons and

doctors used in those field hospitals and the hospitals and places where they

were caring for they injured. There's all kinds of things going on at the park!

Folks who may want to go biking or running or hiking-- you can connect both

sections of the park by walking on the canal the three miles.

We have campgrounds for Boy Scout troops and Girl Scout troops if they are

interested in using our scout campground. But, we also have picnic pavilions and we

have barbecues and grills so that families can come out and have a

picnic lunch when the weather's nice. Virtually every weekend, there's always

something to do here.

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Washington highly likely to ask Seoul to bear more of joint defense costs - Duration: 2:02.

Seoul and Washington will begin negotiations on defense cost sharing come next month.

Under President Trump's America First policy, the U.S. is expected to demand Seoul bear

a greater share.

Oh Jung-hee provides a peak into the likely scenario.

New rounds of negotiations on South Korea-U.S. defense cost sharing are to begin next month,

most likely taking place in Hawaii.

And the negotiations could be tough, with Washington expected to demand that Seoul pay

more.

The two countries split the costs of the U.S. forces stationed in South Korea, with both

paying for Koreans working at U.S. bases in South Korea,... facilities construction and

logistical support.

Under the original Status of Forces Agreement -- which came into effect in 1967 -- South

Korea offered facilities and land for U.S. troops while the U.S. paid all the necessary

costs.

But since the first Special Measures Agreement in 1991,...

Seoul has been paying some of the costs for U.S. troops stationed in South Korea.

The latest SMA, the ninth of its kind, was signed in 2014 and expires this year.

And that's why Seoul and Washington need to strike their tenth Special Measures Agreement.

Washington has been firm that Seoul needs to pay more.

The Pentagon has specifically pointed out last month... that it "doesn't expect its

friend to be unfair when working together"... and stressed the South Korea-U.S. military

spending agreement has to be reset considering reality and fairness.

South Korea is expected to say that it's already paying enough.

Seoul has been paying nearly 1 trillion won, or almost 920-million U.S. dollars, each year

since the 2014 SMA,... bearing 46-percent of the total cost of the U.S. forces in South

Korea.

Seoul's foreign ministry says... it will strive to create conditions for the stable stationing

of U.S. troops in South Korea and strengthen combined defense capabilities,... but at the

same time will try to reach an agreement that's reasonable and beneficial for South Koreans.

Oh Jung-hee, Arirang News.