BURR VS. HAMILTON.(The Talk of the Town)(descendants prepare to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Alexander Hamilton-Aaron Burr duel with a rre-enactment)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 07-JUN-04

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The Inwood Canoe Club is Manhattan's oldest paddling collective. In its hundred-year existence, it has produced several Olympians, though these days, thanks to its new commodore, Antonio Burr, it is a more recreational and democratic organization, made up of various "water people," as Burr says. On a spring morning, there may be no place in the city more serene than the club's boathouse, a red aluminum cabin nestled among the dense trees lining the Hudson, a hundred yards downstream from Tubby Hook and perhaps a mile north of the George Washington Bridge. Burr, who is Chilean, and a forensic psychologist by profession, was standing on the boathouse dock one recent morning, next to a slender, old-fashioned kayak made of canvas--"like...

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