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YORKTOWN, Va. (AP) — The British may have played The World Turned Up side Down when they surrendered Oct. 19, 1781, but Yorktown was turned right: side-up Tuesday after it celebrated that event. The population shrank almost to its normal 260. The Colonial Parkway was reopened. The tents that had housed ar mies, food stands and craft shops came down after four days of the Yorktown Bicentennial. Most of the 4,000 men, women and children who had recreated the Revolu tionary armies and their followers broke camp and left town. The 20th century Navy ships that had lined the York River sailed away, and the modern Air Force's F-15 on display was disassembled. The 400 state troopers who directed traffic and helped with security departed. “The second battle of Yorktown has come to an end,” said Nelson Crockett, owner of Yorktown’s one hotel. Its lounge had been filled with an odd assortment of sailors, civilians and people dressed in 18th-century costumes. “In a week it will be hard to tell what went on here,” said Al Coates, one of eight state employees drafted to help coordinate the commemoration of the battle that ended the Revolutionary War. It actually will be spring before the Yorktown battlefield is returned to nor mal. Federal park employees have to re seed the banks shorn of grass by the
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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Wed, Oct 21, 1981
Page 26
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