THE impatient patriots here had splendidly short fuses in 1775. Those who tilled the startlingly red clay or who lived in the town named for George III's wife Charlotte might have been bemused had they foreseen the annual hoopla that commemorates July 4, 1776.
What occurred that day in Philadelphia might have been a Declaration of Independence, but the first such was enacted here on May 20, 1775.
George Will defends the celebration of July 4th.
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