HISTORY. Towns are kicking off America’s semiquincentennial birthday this spring with commemorative events, historical re-enactments and educational programming.
The signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, gave the United States its official birthday, but that seminal document wasn’t the first chapter in America’s story - it was the culmination of years of turmoil and discontent with British rule.
Just as the Revolutionary War began with the...