Thursday, June 17, 2010

Saving history...or trying to do so

by rserven

I decided that under the current circumstances, providing some distraction would not be unwarranted...and I have a bit of an update to pass along.

Tonight will be another meeting of the West Orange Zoning Board...concerning the desire of Seton Hall Prep and the Archdiocese of Newark to turn McClellan Old-Growth Forest into sports fields and parking lots.

For those who haven't been following, that is General-in-Chief of the Union Army George Brinton McClellan, who was fired by President Lincoln

If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time.

--Abraham Lincoln

...and subsequently ran against Lincoln for president as an anti-war Democrat in 1864.  McClellan was also governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881.



continued at Daily Kos....