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When George Washington lit it up: Re-enacting a scientific test

A re-enactment of George Washington’s 1783 swamp gas experiment on the Millstone River in Rocky Hill with Gavin Swiatek, left, as Gen. Washington and Zachary Freedman, standing, as Thomas Paine.


Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski