SAR250 Washington Crossing and the Ten Crucial Days

Commemorations and Reenactment

Draft Schedule (All Pending Approval)

Friday, December 11 AM - Abridged version of the Traversing the Ten Crucial Days bus tour. Not the standard seven-hour tour beginning at 8 AM - more like three hours - very little time, if any, will be spent off the bus. The purpose of this tour is to give members a "Ten Crucial Days 101" so they will get the lay of the land on both sides of the Delaware. 

• Friday, December 11, Midday - Free time for members to go back and visit sites (or go shopping). 

• Friday, December 11 Evening Time TBD - Welcome Reception at the Washington Landing Museum and Visitor Center, featuring the Unionville Vineyards "Washington Series" wines - Revolutionary Red, Victory White, Battlefield Blush. 

• Saturday, December 12, Morning 

  • Wreath Commemorations at the Colonnade at Princeton Battlefield 500 Mercer Street, Princeton NJ 08540, 8 AM,

  • Richard Stockton Commemoration, Stony Brook Friends Burial Ground, 470 Quaker Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540, 10 AM,

  • John Witherspoon Commemoration, Princeton Cemetery, 29 Greenview Ave., Princeton, NJ 08540 12 PM.

• Saturday, December 12 - 2 PM - 5 PM: Several small bus tour options to other area Rev War sites and a public reading of The American Crisis (Site TBD)

• Saturday, December 12 - 6 PM - 9 PM Buffet Banquet with Guest Speaker and Music from The Crossing, Cooper's Riverview Restaurant in Trenton. The site of this restaurant is in Trenton’s Ferry District. It is historically significant.

• Sunday, December 13 - WCHP  "First Crossing" with Wreath Commemoration and WCSP "Washington's Landing" (Members will have a choice on which to attend, or they may walk across the bridge to do both.

• End.