As America’s Independence Day approaches, a recent AAA survey reveals high gas prices will impact travel plans for 44 percent of intended travelers, leaving 70 percent looking for other ways to save. According to the motorist group, the national average price for regular gasoline during the holiday weekend is expected to remain approximately one dollar [...]
4th of July: In addition to fireworks and sparklers, Americans can celebrate the Fourth of July by igniting a renewed interest in the important events that have shaped our country’s history and heritage, according to former US Congressman George Nethercutt, Jr., author of In Tune With America: Our History in Song. Nethercutt offers the following [...]
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and [...]
In addition to fireworks and sparklers, Americans can celebrate the Fourth of July by igniting a renewed interest in the important events that have shaped our country’s history and heritage, according to former US Congressman George Nethercutt, Jr., author of In Tune With America: Our History in Song. Nethercutt offers the following ideas to mark [...]
Note for note, there is no place like Philadelphia over the Fourth of July weekend. While music fans will enjoy three consecutive nights of free outdoor concerts featuring top-name talent, fireworks aficionados will be dazzled by two back-to-back nights of dazzling pyrotechnics. It all adds up to one easy-on-the-wallet Wawa Welcome America Fourth of July [...]
Michael D’Antuono, the artist who created an uproar with his controversial painting “The Truth” on President Obama’s 100th day in office will be unveiling two new pieces on July 4, 2009. The artist will be exhibiting an installation at NYC’s Washington Square Park that tackles the subject of our nation’s dependence on foreign oil. D’Antuono, [...]
While the Fourth of July barbecue is as uniquely American as baseball and apple pie, the first International Weber GrillWatch Survey(TM) shows that outdoor cooks around the globe celebrate their own national holidays in much the same way. Independence Day is the number one grilling holiday in the United States, according to the Survey, with [...]
On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation. As always, this most American of holidays will be marked by parades, fireworks and backyard barbecues across the country. 2.5 million In July 1776, the estimated number [...]