"Pomp and parades" for 240 years
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July 6, 2016
When it comes to parades, La Conner’s is always one worth watching. The 4th of July parade on Monday was mostly locals with their decorated pets, lawnmowers, bicycles, golf carts, tractors and baby strollers. This year’s entries included a garden walking in Jo Mitchelle’s cowboy boots. – Photo by Don Coyote
Monday was America’s big birthday bash.
But if Founding Father John Adams had won out, the fun in La Conner would’ve gotten under way on Saturday instead.
Adams, who would become the young nation’s second president, was a member of the committee led by Thomas Jefferson that drafted the Declaration of Independence, which was formally adopted July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia.
But, as Adams pointed out a day earlier in a famous letter to his wife, Abigail, July 2 was the day delegates to the Continental Congress approved Virginian Richard Henry Lee’s motion for independence from Great Britain.
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