Beacon to Newburgh's Washington's Headquarters, 7-8 miles

Please read the entire trip description 3 or 4 times before responding or asking questions. Please, please, please do not rsvp for this walk unless you intend to come. Please change your RSVP as soon as you know you can't attend after all, but no later than Wed. Aug. 27, to allow others to take your place.
Take the 9:35am train from Grand Central to Beacon, (Senior round trip off peak fare is $24.00, adult is $35.50; The ferry from Newburgh to Beacon is $1.75) Please look for me on the Beacon platform. Do not leave the platform. Use the restroom on the train. There are no restrooms at the Beacon station. Drivers, please let me know if you will be on the northbound station at 11:05am
We'll walk to Newburgh over the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. We'll make our way to Thomas Edison's second site in New York State to be electrified, a former woolen mill, now a transformer station, (the first was a Pearl Street, Manhattan shirtwaist factory). We'll also stop at the Ritz theater, where Desi and Lucy got their start! The Beacon Public Library has wonderful views of the Hudson. There's a historic church nearby.
Onward to Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site, also called Hasbrouck House, overlooking the Hudson River. George Washington lived there while he was in command of the Continental Army during the final year of the American Revolutionary War; it had the longest tenure as his headquarters of any place he had used.
In 1961 the house was designated a state historic site. It is also the oldest house in the city of Newburgh, and the first property acquired and preserved by any U.S. state for historic reasons.
Once at the Headquarters and Museum we'll divide into 2 groups of 15 and take turns being guided around the Headquarters. If it isn't raining we can climb the tower. There is a $5. charge for the group tour. Please bring exact change.

Highly recommend the Wikipedia article on Newburgh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newburgh,_New_York
on Washington's Headquarters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Headquarters_State_Historic_Site

We'll return to Beacon train station via the $1.75 bus ride from Newburgh to Beacon. Please understand the ferry service from Newburgh to Beacon has been terminated and replaced with a bus. I am unxcertain of how reliable it is. If you must be back in New York by a certain time you may want to consider a different event. Alternatively, you can walk or take an Uber back to Beacon. Trains leave Beacon for Grand Central approximately every 30 minutes, and arrive in Grand Central approximately 90-120 minutes later.
Please bring hat, sunscreen, lunch, snacks and plenty of water. Steady rain will postpone but we go in light rain.
Ellen Fleishman, 917 734 7813