Welcome to our brand-new podcast, The History Twins - where history is more than just dates and dead people. In each episode we explore the past through music and story.
For our first episode, we're talking about “This Man’s A Spy!”, our musical retelling of the story of American general Benedict Arnold and British Major John Andre.
Jim and I first heard about John Andre from Hudson Valley, NY storyteller Jonathan Kruk. In Jonathan’s telling of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Major Andre is actually mentioned. In the classic tale of the Headless Horseman it’s said that Andre’s ghost haunts Sleepy Hollow in the place where he was caught, which is now Patriot’s Park in Tarrytown, NY.
Most people have heard the story of American General Benedict Arnold who gave up the plans for West Point. John Andre is the British officer who received the plans, but who was also caught and sentenced to death. Ironically, Benedict Arnold got away.
One reason that this story is remembered to this day was that, had this traitorous plot succeeded, Britain may have won the war.
Over the course of our podcast episodes, we will tell the stories behind the songs that we wrote and performed for “This Man’s A Spy”, as well as other historical programs that we’ve created.
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Arnold and Andre Overview:
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/john-andre/
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United States Semiquincentennial Commission Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3989/text
