"When Washington loses it, on September 15th-this day, two hundred and forty-nine years ago-it will stay in British hands for seven years and two months and ten days, because November 25, 1783, is Evacuation Day, the day the British finally fucking leave New York."
"We're on the corner of Washington Street, named after the most important person in the Revolution, George Washington, after whom we do not have a country if he does not exist."
"Hey, it's Ken Burns for 'UNUM on the Road'!"
Ken Burns completed ten years of work on a six-episode, twelve-hour documentary titled The American Revolution, scheduled to air on PBS in November near the nation's 250th anniversary. Burns filmed man-on-the-street promotional videos in SoHo, noting streets named for Revolutionary generals and narrating historical details on location. He planned to publish the clips on his online platform, UNUM. A two-person crew miked him on Spring Street outside a children's gym. Burns moved through cobblestone streets, posed outside the Ear Inn, and delivered rapid-fire history and anecdotes about British occupation and Evacuation Day.
Read at The New Yorker
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