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A Spy Story

    While Hollywood’s film directors might favor a spy story with interesting characters, they have overlooked an obvious but hitherto unfilmed scenario.

    For instance, here in Tappan, N.Y. where I live, there’s a dramatic and true spy story written in history that today, two centuries later, still delights history buffs and avid readers of adventure stories.

    Tappan is a hamlet 12 miles from Manhattan as the crow flies or 45 to 50 minutes by auto depending upon the weather., road conditions or traffic. It is here that an important event in the Revolutionary War took place. And that gives us the story. The hamlet provides us with an authentic background where original buildings and sites have been carefully preserved. And the cast – a hero, a villain, and a scapegoat – comes straight out of history books, familiar to all who have studied United States history.

    Tappan’s adventure story unfolds something like this. …

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