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July 4, 2025 President Trump declares the beginning of a year long “Great American State Fair,” for our 250th Birthday.
In 1776 munitions and supplies “liberated” from British ships were called “Booty.” The British called our marines “Scurvy Dog Pirates!” A Dubloon was a gold Spanish coin all pirates wanted. It was commonly called a “loony.” We measure and trade the “American Spirit” by the loony minute. 1 loony = 1 minute. If you like what a pirate did to “Share Good Cheer,” surrendered booty from your British account goes into the Pirates’ account. You both get a score measured in “booty.” Biggest booty wins!
250 years ago a group of fishermen, hunters and farmers created a secret weapon to defeat the British. Some of the marines going across the Delaware River with George Washington would be unarmed musicians marching into the center of battle singing and playing “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” The worse the battle got the happier they would play and sing even when mortally wounded. The good cheer from the music created high morale and inspired the good deeds of fighting courageously. Our pirates were out gunned, out numbered and an all volunteer force fighting with hunting weapons, small fishing boats and farm tools. They regularly defeated a vastly superior enemy by creating the good cheer of “The American Spirit.” To this day, “Yankee Doodle Dandy” is the number 1 song played in fife and drum competitions. The unarmed marine musicians who marched into battle playing and singing “Yankee Doodle Dandy” became our country’s first rock stars.
George Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day, 1776. To honor George and how he created the American Spirit to win at the battle of Trenton, we call this honor “The George Washington Christmas Game.”
This is a score board for the American Spirit!
People that don’t know how to play and who are not logged in can be part of your team. These people are called “Landlubbers.” They might not even know that they are helping their team to play the George Washington Christmas Game. They are just given simple directions. This makes the George Washington Christmas Game all inclusive and any “Special Hero” can play.
If you are a landlubber and are playing the pen and paper version just wait for instructions or read the instructions below. If you are a landlubber that wants to play online, register and pay $1 to join the Atlanta Volunteers. On the “Pirates” page click on “Gifts.”Press a button that says “Share Good Cheer.’ A receipt show on your phone screen, follow the instructions for the gift. When you run out of game points press a button that says “loony.” Donate 25 cents for each game point you want. Your balance is at the top right of your screen. If you are a landlubber, your instructions are finished! Bub-bye! Have fun! Good luck!
If you are a Sailor or Pirate you can earn cash and prizes creating gifts for Landlubbers. You can direct your team to have fun while volunteering to improve the health and wellness of the community. Unless you are a landlubber donating to the Atlanta Volunteers, you will see we do not use credit cards or have advertising anywhere at the Pirate Dive Bar. If you take an hour or two to learn the “George Washington Christmas Game,” the one dollar you spend to join the Atlanta Volunteers should be your only expense. You could earn cash and prizes and even a 10% referral fee on donations and crew share paid at the time somebody donates or when they get paid.
Typical volunteer “Gifts” of the American Spirit are 1 to 25 minutes. To begin, watch the instructional video then take about 10 minutes to create your first gift. It is about 1 minute to create a gift after that. George Washington had Sailors, Landlubbers and Pirates. Landlubbers just open gifts, Sailors and Pirates create them. If you don’t mind being called a “Landlubber” you can skip all the instructions and just click a few times to open GIFTS from anywhere around the world. There are two ways to score. With a pen and paper or online. Pen and paper instructions are here, George Washington Christmas game and the online instructions below.
This is a 250th Birthday Celebration site. Just as a nonprofit site should be, you will see nothing for sale and no advertising! You donate $1 to our nonprofit to sign our 250th birthday card or read the replies of others. Using a new method of registering, the one dollar donation does a few surprising things. It supports our vocational group home, it is like the blue check mark on X but lets you use a fake email with no verification or app to download, verifies your age as 18+ and keeps AI, bots and trouble makers from commenting. But the best thing it does is allow you to put your phone down and find or build actual volunteer missions to create the “American Spirit.”
The marines were an innovative mix of volunteers. Why did they volunteer?