New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

Using a variety of funding, a railroad car transport barge was remodeled and outfitted at Brewer's Shipyard on Staten Island and furnished with exhibits designed by the firm Johnson Hehr Nehin. The resulting New York Festival Barge, the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission's largest public program, transported a floating educational exhibit entitled "This Glorious Cause" and a crew of performers and craft demonstrators.

A total of 912,887 people visited the barge from June through October of 1976 as it toured 37 sites along 3,000 miles of the state's waterways.

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