Originally Posted by
Bostondevil
She does indeed. BD finished 3rd in the mile run that day. That was for the kids too old for tricycles. I also remember Betsy Ross winning the tricycle race. It made the local news, Frank Thompson reported on it. Frank Thompson was a long time local TV news reporter who was good at finding the heartwarming human interest stuff and he lived in our hood, so our 4th of July bash got the coverage.
I've reported here before that I came up with my own Bicentennial project, yes? I memorized Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and recited it my backyard on the 200th anniversary (April 18, 1975) while a group of neighborhood kids acted it out behind me. My younger brother was Paul Revere. We performed for a few invited guests (mostly the parents of the kids who acted it out behind me). I'm going to do it again with some theater friends for the 250th. Don't know where yet - not my backyard though.
Btw, aimo, my younger brother won the 4th of July tricycle race one year, but he was too old by 1976. Looking back on it now, the 4th of July celebrations in our hood were fantastic. I've never lived anywhere else that did the 4th of July better than we did in the 1970s.