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Military music and the reading of the Declaration of Independence filled Salem Square for their 242nd Fourth of July ...

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The Douglas community celebrated both old and new ways to be active Friday afternoon during the island’s annual Independence ...

Over time, the Fourth of July became etched in public memory as the date of independence, largely because it was the day Americans first saw the finished document. It became symbolic, representing the ...