Posts Tagged ‘George’

The Sunday Salon: Watching George Washington Slept Here (1942)

Why oh why oh why oh why hasn’t anyone put this on DVD yet?! Seriously?! This black and white comedy from 1942 is SO SO SO good. It stars Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan as Bill and Connie Fuller. (Hattie McDaniel plays their maid; you’d probably recognize her from her role in Gone With The [...]

The Crossing: How George Washington Saved…

The Crossing: How George Washington Saved The American Revolution. Jim Murphy. 2010. Scholastic. 96 pages.  On April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers clashed in a bloody battle in Massachusetts. Part of it happened in the village of Lexington, while the other part took place fifteen miles away in Concord. these first shots that started [...]