one was ethan allen not the furniture magnate we are clear on that?that is a cruel irony of history he fights with yorkers so they decided to call their furniture ethan allen furniture. he was a mountain man. he became famous for the attack on ticonderoga. but from the mountainous wilds of america something unusual path is that he was an infidel. and he professed not to believe in any form of religion. so what did this mountain man to? he wrote a really long book i feel i am one of the first that have read this in a long time. i cannot back that up but i feel that way. [laughter] reason is the only oracle of man and in vermont they would call it ethan allen's bible ironically. here is what you need to know. first not a particularly good book. he is not an infidel and says he is not sure if he is a deus. after all he does not read the one thing he is sure of the live the crucial points is even though he says he is night when you read his book what you come across is the astonishing number of arguments and phrases and claims that comes straight head of

the test case was ethan allen. begottenured a fort himself captured ahead of an american army said to invade canada. when captured, he was brought before major general prescott who plays a major role in my book. he was one of those british officers who considered rebels to be criminals. traitors, weren't all criminals? prescott turned purple with rage and yelled at allen he would not execute him but he would grace the place in london where they would hang programmers -- pr isoners. allen was treated terribly. he was brought to england and placed in a common resume where it was expected he would be hanged. an extraordinary thing happened. he became a cause celeb. patriots clamored for his release. authorities wanting to avoid a scene quickly brought him the the -- sent him back to north america. after more miserable treatment, allen was treated the way captured officers were expected to be treated. he was allowed to live in a house in new york city with other captured officers. during the day, he was allowed to roam

she turned herself in in june and suspended without pay from her job at ethan allen elementary schoolen told a judge he had sex with her on ten different occasions last spring. >>> a remembrance walk and a moment of silence will be held for a murdered philadelphia women. laura araujo was found murdered on july 14th and a graduate of the art institute of philadelphia. tonight's vigil begins at the art institute at 23rd and market streets. that will start at 8:00 p.m. and the crowd will walk to the art mew zeforeign minister a moment of silence. her body was found in a duffel bag outside an abandoned new kensington house. she had had been strangled and her body was dumped there. she was robbed and killed by this man, her west philadelphia neighbor jeremiah jackson. he is under arrest and charged with her murder. >>> your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist brittney shipp. >> good morning. fall-like temperatures for us in the middle of august. as we head through the rest of today, below average temperatures. it will be a cool start to your morning and then weekend rain chances

if you ask me what is going to happen and you accept the very high end ethan allen & co.of new york, we are the only, literally the only -- we ha hade homage that have some but they were quite expensive and i will tell you a story about that at f we have time but my point is is we are the only ones left. i counted 125 factories the other day that i know have closed. in virginia and north carolina and tennessee and we are the only ones left. >> tell the desert island a story. >> about four or five years ago they said what are we going to? we are not going to make it. and we fight the same battle. don't misunderstand, it's not over with. so, you know, you talk about figures and things end of the accountants and office talking about business meetings. and i could just see the eyes glass over. he didn't know what he was talking about. this isn't going t to happen ani always try to tell the story. i've written about abraham lincoln. he was grateful in a story because people remember the stories but they don't necessarily remember the figures were what else so i was sitting the

fort ethan allen, improving earth works and doing interpretation. a fabulous event. fort c.f. smith, it's historic. it's there now. they also have bathrooms there. we don't have those at fort stevens. fort ward. this is the gem of them all. i hate to admit it. it is. it's big, restored, 90% of earth works restored. it has a great museum. it's in alexandria, alexandria owns and runs it. terrific. the displays are great. they are also doing a lot of history on the african-american story there, which i won't get into. it's very controversial. they are at least trying to make up for past wrongs. fort willard, a traffic circle. those are earth works, ruins, a cannon. squint your eyes and you feel like you're back then. fort stevens. this weekend, this is what it was the last couple of years. every year the closest date we have an event. the one this year is going to be on steroids. she's going to tell you about it. it's going to be fabulous. this is kim. this is our alliance group. our president, treasurer gary thompson and me. it's real important to have advocates, and that's what

fort ethan allen. just this spring they have done a wonderful job of interpretation -- improving the earth works but also doing some interpretation. they had a fabulous event. here's c.f. smith. another one here. here, hey, this is historic. this is there now and they also have bathrooms there. you know, we don't have those at fort stevens. fort ward, this is a gem of them. i hate to admit it, but it is. it's big. it's been restored. about 90% of the earth works are restored. it has a great museum. it's in alexandria. alexandria owns it and runs it. terrific. the displays are great. they're also doing a lot of history on the african-american story there, which i won't get into, it's very controversial, but they're at least trying now to make up for past wrongs. fort willard. this is the cutest little thing, it's just a traffic circle with people around it. look what they did. these are earth works, ruins, cannon. you drive and you feel like you're back then. and then this is fort stevens this weekend.