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An officer and a good Samaritan from Kings Park rescued an elderly woman from a burning home in Eaton’s Neck on Feb. 10, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. The 2nd Precinct’s Matthew Funaro responded to the house fire on Old Winkle Point Road in Eaton’s Neck at 4:45 p.m. to find flames and heavy smoke coming from the second floor, police said. He went inside and found 88-year-old Helen Morris, who was in a wheelchair, in the firstfloor living room. With help from 55-year-old oil technician and Kings Park resident Joseph Cartelli, Funaro carried Morris out to safety, police said. She was then transported to Huntington Hospital by the Eaton’s Neck Rescue Squad and treated for minor, non-life-

threatening injuries, Eaton’s Neck Assistant Fire Chief Richard Rizzuti said. According to Rizzuti, the Eaton’s Neck and Northport fire departments worked together to put out the blaze at the house located just off Northport Bay. “It was challenging because

of the terrain,” Rizzuti said in a phone interview. “There were 30 winding steps down to her house because her property is located at the beach level.” Rizzuti said it took a while to get a specialty hose line set up because of the landscape, but by 6:15 p.m., the fire was com-

pletely out. He also said they battled a content fire due to the fact that only the bed and comforters went up in flames and none of the structural parts of the house. Detectives from the SCPD’s Arson Squad were investigating the cause of the fire, police said.

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Emma Clark kicks off Bookmark Contest Let creativity shine at Emma Clark Library’s first ever Bookmark Contest. The challenge — open to all children living in the Three Village Central School District in grades kindergarten through sixth — is to create an original bookmark. The winning entries will be printed and distributed at the library throughout the year. Winners may see their artwork in the hands of their friends, and they can be proud that their creations encourage Three Villagers to read. To pick up an official entry form and bookmark template, kids may stop by the Children’s Reference Desk or down-

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load the form at www.kids.emmaclark. org. The entry deadline is March 31. Winners will be chosen in three categories — K to second grade, third and fourth and fifth and sixth grades — and announced on May 2 to kick off Children’s Book Week, a national annual celebration and the longest running national literacy initiative in the country, first established in 1919. Join the contest and be a part of a nationwide celebration of reading. If you have any questions, please email kids@emmaclark.org or call 631941-4080, ext. 123. The library is located at 120 Main Street, Setauket.

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North Shore AME church keeps building bridges BY Phil Corso

“It changed, so how can we?” That is the question the Rev. Greg Leonard of Setauket’s Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church has asked the Three Village community, and that is the question residents will have the chance to answer at a special service planned for next week. Leonard and more than 100 members of his church hosted a moving ceremony in the aftermath of June’s horrific shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina, and he said Black History Month was an appropriate time to reflect. “At the previous meeting, we started to build bridges to one another and we want to continue doing this,” he said. “And with this being Black History Month, Bethel wanted to take leadership and hold an event at which all people — because black history isn’t just for black people — can come together.” Bethel AME scheduled the gathering for Saturday, Feb. 27 at 3 p.m. at the church, located at 33 Christian Ave. in Setauket. The event flyer that Bethel AME Church has been distributing promoted the hash tag #PrayForCharleston, which went viral following the June 17, 2015 shooting that killed nine African Americans at the church in South Carolina. The flyer also challenged the Three Village

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community with moving the dialogue forward to address racial issues and injustice across America. “The primary issue we’re talking about is change,” Leonard said. “It’s about how this change happens on a communitywide basis, and also on an individual basis.” North Shore native Leroy White lost his second cousin DePayne Middleton Doctor in the tragedy and said the outpouring of support from Three Village families was overwhelming in the days

following the shooting. “What we saw was a community coming together so well that it was almost unbelievable,” White said in an interview in June. “The response was so overwhelming that we were taken aback by the number of people who showed up. It showed me that this is one of the better communities in America.” Since the shooting, Leonard said he has already seen strides made across the country to enhance the discussion about race in America. He cited the re-

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Government considers to boost Brookhaven lab By Giselle Barkley

Budget season brought good news for the Brookhaven National Laboratory, which may receive $291.5 million from the government to help sustain and improve two of its facilities as part of U.S. President Barack Obama’s budget request for the 2017 fiscal year. The president requested $179.7 million of that money to go toward BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider facility and the remainder to the National Synchrotron Light Source II facility. The proposed amount is $9.5 million more than what the lab received last year for the two facilities combined. According to Brookhaven Lab spokesperson Peter Genzer, the money won’t only help the Lab’s RHIC and NSLS-II facilities run, but also help fund new experimental stations at NSLS-II. The president’s financial inquiry includes $1.8 million for the Core Facility Revitalization project, which will provide the infrastructure and facilities to store data to support the lab’s growing needs, the press release said. U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have worked to maintain America’s science presence — and securing more federal funds for the lab helps maintain it.

Schumer said he was pleased with the president’s request to increase funding for the lab, saying that an increase in funding will help keep BNL and our nation at the forefront of innovation and boost Long Island’s economy. “We appreciate the president’s continued support for science and, in particular, Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and National Synchrotron Light Source II,” BNL Director Doon Gibbs said. “We are also extremely grateful for the ongoing efforts of Sen. Schumer and Sen. Gillibrand — and the entire N.Y. Congressional delegation — on behalf of the Lab and its research mission.” According to RHIC’s website, scientists study earth in its infancy and other areas that will help people better understand how the world works. The approximate 16-year-old ion collider is also the first machine in the world that can support colliding heavy ions. The NSLS-II allows scientists to examine high-energy light waves in a variety of spectrums, including x-ray, ultraviolet and infrared. The RHIC and NSLS-II are BNL’s two largest facilities Genzer said. He added that the “president’s budget request is the first step in the budget process for the fiscal year 2017.” The budget year begins on Oct. 1. In the best-case scenario, the government

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Legals Notice of formation of The Monarch 13 Group, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on May 14, 2014 Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC: 89 Van Brunt Manor Rd East Setauket, NY 11733 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 555 1/14 6x tmc ANNUAL BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION NOTICE OF SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING OF THE MIDDLE COUNTRY PUBLIC LIBRARY, TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Special District Meeting of the qualified/registered voters of the Middle Country Central School District at Centereach, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, will be held in the Centereach Building of the Middle Country Public Library, 101 Eastwood Boulevard, Centereach, New York, on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, at 9:30 A.M. prevailing time, for the purpose of voting upon the following items: (1) To adopt the Annual Library Budget for the fiscal year 2016-2017 and to authorize that the requisite portion thereof be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the Middle Country Central School District; and (2) To elect one (1) Trustee to the Middle Country Public Library to fill a five (5) year term commencing July 1, 2016, and ending on June 30, 2021, as a result of the expiration of the term of office presently held by John Hoctor. FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that for the purpose of voting at such meeting on April 5, 2016 the polls will open between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, and voting will be held in the Middle Country Public Library (Centereach Building), 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York; and

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of a statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for the Middle Country Public Library’s purposes, exclusive of public monies, may be obtained by any resident of the District during the fourteen (14) days immediately preceding said vote/election except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from the Library, located at 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York during the hours of 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. prevailing time and; FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the Office of Trustee of the Middle Country Public Library are available from the Office of the Election Clerk (designated Election Officer) located in the Middle Country Public Library, 101 Eastwood Boulevard, Centereach, New York. Petitions may be filed on any weekday between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time not later than Monday, March 7, 2016. Each petition must be directed to the Election Clerk and must designate the office sought, the name and residence of the candidate and must be signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified voters of the District setting forth their addresses; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law and has voted at any Annual or Special District Meeting within the past four (4) years, such voter is eligible to vote at this vote/ election; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law, such voter is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register. The Board of Registration will meet for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law on Tuesday , March 29, 2016 between the hours of 2:00 pm and 9:00 pm, prevailing time at the Library Building, 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York and at the election/vote, at which time any person will be

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POLICE BLOTTER Incidents and arrests from Feb. 8- Feb. 14 Unfair fight On Feb. 9 police arrested a woman from Port Jefferson for assault after they said the 40-year-old attempted to enter her victim’s bedroom at the Fairfield Falls apartment complex on President’s Drive. The victim tried to prevent the suspect from entering the room and was holding a steak knife to protect herself. During the struggle to open the bedroom door, the suspect allegedly took the knife and cut the victim. Police arrested the woman at the scene at 9:37 a.m. Not so bright A 40-year-old woman from Miller Place was arrested for driving while ability impaired in a 2012 Hyundai Tuscon on Feb. 8 after crashing into a light pole near the corner of Route 25A and Miller Place Road. Police arrested her at the scene. Underage and over the limit Police arrested a 16-year-old boy for driving while ability impaired on Feb. 8. The Selden teen was driving a gray 2005 Acura west on Jericho Turnpike when he failed to maintain his lane. Police arrested him at the corner of Dawn Drive in Centereach around 2 p.m. On the road again On Feb. 14, a 21-year-old man from Coram was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident, after police said he crashed his 2004 Mercedes-Benz into a parked 2015 Jeep Wrangler on Barone Drive on Feb. 5 and f led the scene. Cruisin’ over the rules Police arrested a man from Smithtown on Feb. 10 for driving with a suspended license and false impersonation. According to police, the 29-year-old had been driving a Nissan Altima on Norwood Avenue in Port Jefferson Station and when pulled over had allegedly given police a different person’s name. Caught at knifepoint On Feb. 10, a Rocky Point resident was arrested for assault. Police said the 43-year-old man cut someone with a knife at a residence on Teepee

Road. The victim was taken to John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson. Suspect was uber upset An unknown person punched and broke a window of the Islandwide taxi on Main Street in Port Jefferson. Police said the incident happened on Feb. 11 around 9:56 p.m. I spy an iPhone Between 3 and 11:15 a.m. on Feb. 13, someone stole an iPhone from another person at Junior’s Spycoast bar on Main Street in Port Jefferson. Roll out According to police, on Feb. 13 between 1 and 9:30 a.m., an unidentified person stole an all-terrain vehicle from a residence on Tyler Avenue in Miller Place. Big larceny On Feb. 9, someone stole a wallet from a locked office in Big Lots at the Centereach Mall. Going on Holiday Someone stole a 1996 Acura from a residence on Holiday Park Drive in Centereach on Feb. 12 around 1 a.m. Morning mischief Between midnight and 9:40 a.m. on Feb. 14, an unknown person stole money and a key from an unlocked Jeep parked on Cedarhurst Avenue in Selden. Pocketed On Feb. 12 around 2:30 a.m., an unidentified person stole a pocketbook from a residence on Krispin Lane in Setauket-East Setauket. The pocketbook contained a wallet, credit cards and a phone. Police didn’t say how the suspect entered the home. Copping some pipes Police said an unidentified person entered a residence on Annandale Road in Stony Brook through an unlocked garage door and stole copper piping on Feb. 11. — Compiled by Giselle barkley

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Butch langhorn has served his nation for decades. Above left, langhorn is in uniform during his Army days; above right he is pictured with his family.

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North Shore hero: Veteran keeps giving back By Rich AcRitelli

To say that Long Island native Butch Langhorn has lived a full life would be an understatement. As a veteran and a community man, he has both seen a lot and given a lot back to the county that raised him. From his youth, Langhorn was a gifted three-sport athlete, excelling in football, basketball and track for Riverhead High School. His impact was so great that he held the record for the triple jump for 10 years after his graduation. In 1964, the young man enlisted in the U.S. Army and was stationed at Fort Totten in Bayside, Queens. While he worked in the personnel office, his sporting abilities allowed him the chance to play basketball within the Special Services of the Army. Langhorn competed as a 5-foot-8-inch guard against many who had experience playing semiprofessional and Division I hoops. The servicemen competing had the rare opportunity of representing their military bases in games that ranged from Maine to New Jersey.

The next year, Langhorn was deployed to South Vietnam, where he saw the earliest action of the war in Southeast Asia. In an interview, he noted the beauty of the nation and the influence of French culture on the former capital of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City. For a couple of months, Langhorn was a gunner on a helicopter that flew into the major combat areas of South Vietnam, engaged against the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong. He was tasked with helping medical evacuation crews with the vital mission of returning wounded and dead U.S. soldiers to American bases. As a young African-American soldier during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, Langhorn observed the treatment of blacks in South Vietnam. According to Langhorn, he had a relationship with a local woman of French descent who took him home to meet her family. When he met her mother, the woman told him to shower and take a nap before dinner. Again he came into her presence and she wrongly believed that he was

a white soldier who had too much dirt on his skin. It was one example of a different racial experience for Langhorn — he quickly learned that most of the black soldiers who were fighting against the communists in South Vietnam were not understood by the very people they were trying to protect. After more than a year overseas, Langhorn went home to finish his Army tour. By 1971, he quickly re-enlisted as an active guardsmen reservist, serving full-time for the New York 106th Air National Guard base in Westhampton Beach. For many years, he was the head of the recruiting station that brought in many fine airmen, noncommissioned officers and officers. Langhorn had a prideful hand in signing military members from different backgrounds to enhance the Air Force wing. Many of the men and women he recruited have been deployed to the Middle East to fight the war on terror, conducted massive air-sea rescues in the Atlantic Ocean, endured the rigors of the elite pararescue jumper training and deployments, and tackled the older mission of aiding space shut-

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tle landings. Langhorn later oversaw the personnel department that was responsible for sorting out the paperwork needs of the military unit. Langhorn may be retired after serving four decades in uniform, but he is still a dominant member of his community and has spent a lot of that time trying to help young people. He served on the Riverhead Central School District Board of Education for five years, working to keep athletics and other programs in the schools, and as a current assistant for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, he organizes educational programs that bring high school criminal justice students to visit the county jail. In his role, he also helps guide nonprofit groups that are focused on rehabilitating inmates. In addition, former Congressmen Michael Forbes and Tim Bishop both recognized Langhorn’s professionalism, and he served as an instrumental member of their staffs to handle veterans affairs. Since his youth, this North Shore citizen has given back to his society and to his nation. TBR Newspapers salutes him during Black History Month.

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Photos by Bill Landon

Clockwise from left, Justin Eck avoids the block while attempting a shot; Kevin Callahan drives the baseline; Jon agostino drives the lane as he makes his way up to the rim; and Will idzinski scores from inside the paint.

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19 Ward Melville on its own home court. The Cougars were able to close within eight points midway through the final quarter, but that was the closest they would get, as the Patriots floored it in the final minutes to put the game away, 59-41. Ward Melville stretched its legs early, and edged ahead 12-4 after eight minutes of play. The Patriots’ defense was swarming, blocking several shots. While the Cougars struggled offensively, the Patriots found their 3-point range during the second quarter, with senior Mathew O’Hea netting one, and teammate Mathew Hudzik, a junior, swishing his second trey of the game, to put the team out front 22-13 at the halftime break. Ward Melville opened the second half much like it did the first, with 3-pointers from O’Hea and Hudzik. Centereach countered when Kevin Callahan fouled from 3-point land. Despite thunderous calls from the visiting crowd, the senior swished all three attempts. “We haven’t made it in a while — it’s a different mind-set and it’s a big deal,” Callahan said. “It’s a big crowd and lot of people come out, so it’s a lot of pressure.” Centereach senior Justin Eck also nailed a 3-point field goal, to make it a 10-point game with two minutes left in the third. “We focused on this round just like we did with the in-season games,” Eck said. “We needed to focus on our game plan. …

We focused on execution — we tried to stay loose and play our game.” Centereach junior Jon Agostino hit his second 3-pointer to make it a nine point game, and both teams traded points before the Cougars, on a defensive steal, converted the opportunity to draw within eight points with 4:03 left in regulation. “Tonight we fed off of our defensive energy,” Ward Melville head coach Alexander Piccirillo said. “We thrived on stops, or holding someone to just one shot or forcing a bad shot, and that translates to the offensive side of the ball.” Hudzik executed his fifth trifecta of the evening to re-extend the Patriots’ lead, and with time running out, Centereach was forced to arrest the clock. The Cougars sent Hudzik to the line after a foul, and the junior went 6-for-6 from the charity stripe to put the game out of reach. “We looked at the film from our loss to Commack [10 days ago] and we learned from that,” said Hudzik, who scored 21 points on the evening. “We did our best to do everything right that we did wrong in that game.” According to Centereach head coach Ed Miller, having endured a long playoff drought, this season was a testament to the commitment of his Cougars senior leadership. “They came out and shot the ball well, and you can’t take anything away from

them,” he said of Ward Melville. “They made it very difficult to play against them. Alex does a great job over there and they’re in the right spots.” Miller added that he was proud of his team, and admired their sense of urgency and the contribution each of them made this season. “They’ve set the stage; they laid the groundwork to get our program back to where we want to be,” he said. “I know the effort that they put into the off season, so it was my seniors that I was most impressed with.”

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OPINION

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Laws governing sex offenders have turned a corner over the last year. County and town governments recently lost the authority to regulate where registered sex offenders are allowed to live. That power now rests solely with New York State, which only limits offenders on parole or probation. While we appreciate the good intention behind one state senator’s bill to let local governments enact their own residency restrictions, it is not ideal. Part of the reason the local municipalities’ authority was overturned in the New York State Court of Appeals last year is that there were too many layers of restrictions. in just our area alone, both Suffolk County and the Town of Brookhaven had their own separate restrictions on where registered sex offenders could reside in their jurisdictions. There should be laws that prevent sex offenders from living within certain distances from schools or their victims, but allowing each county, town or village to decide on their own creates a mishmash of rules that are nearly impossible to follow. When this is the process, there are counties and towns next door to one another, or even overlapping, with different rules. That makes it more difficult for sex offenders to comply, and it would benefit us all if offenders are more able to actually comply with the laws we have enacted. in addition, clean-cut laws that are easy to identify, and thus follow, would also likely bring peace of mind to their victims, who deserve to feel safe. The onus should be on the state to design more comprehensive restrictions on where registered sex offenders can live. That system should include required distances from victims’ homes and places of employment, as well as schools, playgrounds and other places where children gather. And the regulations should vary slightly based upon a community’s density, so as not to treat urban, suburban and rural areas as if they are the same. Although more state regulation is not always an appealing idea, this is one of those cases when we need the state to intervene, in order to make enforcement more uniform. And it is an important issue, because it has an immediate impact on our children and on the sex crime victims we have a moral responsibility to protect.

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Einstein’s theory continues to make waves with new discovery

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bout 61 years after he died, Albert Einstein is still right. The legendary theoretical physicist predicted a century ago that a space time continuum would contain gravitational waves. This past September, a team of more than 1,000 scientists heard a sound from a billion light-years away that was generated by two black holes colliding. The scientists were working at the Laser

Interferometer GravitationalWave Observatory, known as LIGO. The announcement of the results, made on Feb. 11, was greeted with considerable excitement by physicists, mathematicians and scientists, with one of them saying that astronomers have long had eyes but this breakthrough gives them ears, too. I asked Marilena LoVerde and Patrick Meade, Stony Brook University assistant professors at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, for their take on the big announcement. DD: How does the significance of any potential finding of gravitational waves compare to that for the Higgs boson particle? Some people have suggested that it’s on the scale, if not larger, than the Higgs boson particle. PM: I would certainly say it’s a very big discovery. However, unlike the Higgs, gravitational waves were on a much stronger footing that they should exist. The Higgs told us something

new about how the universe worked, and it didn’t have to be true — there were many other options. However, gravitational waves are exciting because it’s a validation of the theory we already use, general relativity, and it may provide a new way to search for physics we haven’t discovered yet. ML: This is absolutely on the scale of the Higgs boson. Similar to the Higgs boson, gravitational waves were predicted and expected to exist — and in fact indirectly measured through the spin down of the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar — but the direct detection of gravitational waves is an absolute triumph of experimental physics and opens an exciting new era of gravitational wave astronomy. DD: What has the email traffic about this announcement been during the last week? Have you received emails from scientists, colleagues, collaborators and friends who all want to know what this would mean and what you make of it?

ML: Rumors have been going around for months, but the frequency of people emailing/ discussing such rumors and adding pieces of evidence suggesting they were true, and the details of the rumors have all increased significantly in the past few weeks. PM: Since this isn’t directly my field I wasn’t as involved as with some other rumors, but rumors through Twitter, blogs and conversations with colleagues at other places who heard things were all happening over about the last month. DD: Is there a chance that whatever was detected was an artifact? ML: The signal looks very compelling. Of course I haven’t had much time to study the details of the statistical methods used to extract the signal and I’m looking forward to doing that. PM: I’d say it’s extremely unlikely to be an artifact or statistical anomaly, because the same signal was seen in two separate detectors — one in Washington [state] and one in Louisiana.

Astronomers have long had eyes but this breakthrough gives them ears, too. DD: Will the existence and detection of gravitational waves open up the sky to enable us to “see” much more than we can now in terms of matter and the universe? Will they help us see and understand dark matter and dark energy? PM: Gravitational waves definitely open up a whole new way to see the universe. However they won’t directly give us any information on dark matter or dark energy in the foreseeable future. To make gravitational waves that are observable with our technology you need very violent gravitational events, like these two black holes merging that LIGO saw. However, by developing new detectors with better sensitivity we may be able to look back and see other violent events in the history of the universe.

George Washington, an unlikely whiskey baron

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his past Monday was Presidents Day, and we might have been thinking of our great presidents, if we were thinking of them at all in the midst of a vacation day, as being larger than life. However, in a recent biogra-

phy of George Washington, Ron Chernow tells us that for all the 8,000 acres of splendid estate and many slaves to work the property, Washington when he retired from the presidency in 1797, was hard up for cash. Financial pressure was “unrelenting.” I don’t know about you, but to me that makes him a more human founding father, one almost every business person and resident can identify with. So what did the father of our country do? He looked around his farmland for a new profit source, one that would supply cash rather quickly, and came up with the idea of making whiskey. It was not, The New York Times tells us in a recent article, his idea alone. His new plantation manager, James Anderson, was a Scotsman

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and distiller. Mount Vernon had plenty of rye and together with what Washington called “Indian corn” and a still, they were able to make ample supplies of whiskey. Now this is not how we usually think of our first president, the guy who chopped down the cherry tree and the president who sent militiamen to quash the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania when local distillers revolted against a federally imposed whiskey tax. Washington was aware of his image problem but, entrepreneur that he needed to be, he became something of a whiskey baron. In the first full year of operation, almost 11,000 gallons were produced and the whiskey earned a profit equivalent to some $142,000

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in today’s dollars. A distillery was built that was one of the largest of the time. Washington blamed his new success on Anderson, unwilling to take personal credit. The distillery was rebuilt after tours of Mount Vernon began and can be viewed by the many visitors to the estate each year. The old recipe is still used when samples are handed out. Washington did enjoy alcohol, favoring “sweet wines, rum punch and whiskey,” but his reputation for alcohol in moderation was established by his stern action toward his troops when they became drunk and his reluctance to pass out drinks when he ran the first time for election to the Virginia House of Burgesses. His opponent did and duly won. A quick study,

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Now this is not how we think of our first president. Washington did so the next time he ran, and this time he was successful. Unfortunately for Washington, he was not able to realize a growing success from his whiskey efforts. In 1799, the second full year of production, he died at the age of 67. He willed the distillery to a granddaughter of his wife Martha, but a fire destroyed the operation in 1814. Only relatively recently has this chapter in Washington’s life become widely known, and it adds a colorful dimension to the man and his myth.

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