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| Image via Wikipedia A new painting calls into question this famous American image, George Washington crossing the Delaware in 1776. |
Fascinating glimpses of New Jersey history are hidden inside The Record today, wrapped in a front-page dominated by a sports rivalry that is of little interest to the majority of readers.
The state's past industrial might is revealed in the A-3 story on the history of a 2-million-square-foot Elizabeth warehouse that caught fire -- written beautifully by Amy Ellis Nutt, a Pulitzer Prize winner at The Star-Ledger.
At the bottom of A-10, AP veteran Verena Dobnik reports a new painting corrects several inaccuracies in one of America's most famous images -- George Washington crossing the Delaware River to surprise and defeat Hessian mercenaries at the Battle of Trenton on Dec. 26, 1776.
These two stories are gifts to readers that surpass anything on today's disappointingly ho-hum Page 1.
Don't look for much interesting reading in the rest of the paper, especially the Christmas wish lists or year-in-reviews you'll find on L-1, B-1 and F-1.
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