It also recalls the celebration in the Missouri River on Isle au Vache or Cow Island on July 4, 1819. It notes that the celebration in North Platte, Nebraska stands as the most famous of such celebrations due to the Old Glo...
Happy Fourth of July! In a letter to his wife in 1776, John Adams, the second President of the United States of America, wrote that the Declaration of Independence should be marked by “…Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations…” John Adams would probably feel a ...