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Three years ago, a team of Mennonites arrived in Harlem, jacked up Alexander Hamilton's house from in between an apartment complex and St. Luke's Episcopal Church, and rolled it slowly to its current location in St. Nicholas Park at 141st Street.
Last weekend. Hamilton House-or more accurately Hamilton Grange National Memorial-was reopened with a lavish celebration that included a band of drummers and men and women attired in 18th century garb-some dressed as soldiers, others as workers making music and chocolate, spinning yarn and sweating over a blacksmith's pit.
Even Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth, showed up. Hamilton (Ian Rose) was of course the man of the hour, and for about 45 minutes he entertained a modest gathering of spectators with bits of his life story and the nature of the occasion.
He explained that after youthful days in...