I must clear this up. Governors Island, in NY City's harbor, has been offered
for sale, by the publicity and for free to the City of New York by the
Federal government who has used it as an Army base, a Coast Guard Station and
various other uses. Half the island is landfilled with confiscated
Confederate ordnance according to the Coast Guard caretaker I spoke to. He
also related that Robert E. Lee's son was kept in the fort since destroyed
that was under the East approach of the Verrazano Bridge, so I assume he knew
quite a bit about the history of the harbor, therefore this story may be true
in part.

It has been used by land and sea forces and has the eagles pointing sinister
and dexter on most of the architecture.

If New York City cannot come up wit ha plan that would use the island it will
sell it "to reduce the National debt," by about an estimated 1/2 billion
dollars at auction. I wanted to explain it to this forum in case they don't
then the only recourse is to protest enough to have the City investigated.

Fort John Jay was built by Columbia University Students in the 18th century
as a tribute to John Jay, the first American Governor of the state of New
York. It reminds be of Fort McHenry, where I have worked as an archaeologist,
only with a deep and larger moat surrounding it. I worked in some deep
profiles for Geoarchaeological Research Associates while there for four days
and found some of the inner structure of moats rampart or ravelin. The
architecture of the fort is similar to the National Historic site of John
Jays Homestead where he retired and continued to play an important role in
our national and world history from my circumspect visit to the John Jay site
on an off day. The porch and basement entrances are the same. All the
buildings all have beautifully varnished floors without a scratch and the
"Village" part, on a green, reminds me of a fictional Hannibal, Missouri, and
expect Mark Twain to walk out onto one of the screened in porches. The coal
chutes have cast iron covers cast in the Bronx in 1876 by the Mott Foundry.

Some of places have been excavated and marked off as unknown cemeteries from
the eighteenth century, a recent monument attests, within plain site of the
huge skyline nearby of the City.

Chestnuts still grow on Nutting Island, the earliest name for it I've seen on
maps.

George J. Myers, Jr.