Famous Picture
Done by Ohioan
ROBABLY 99 of every
persons
10%)
who have sen rep
\ lieas of the famous painting,
“Spirit of "76." are under the
impression it was done dur
ng oF soon after the Revo
lutionary war,
They are in error
ing to u writer in the Washington Post
It was 100 years later that Archibald
M. Willard earried out the cor
of a friend and adviser by putiine on
canvas the
Ing
levels,
J
accor
antion
trio of homespunappear
three distinet
and
musicians, of
drumming
marched
An article by John Huntington Dey
ereux in a bulletin of the National
Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution that andoubtedly 75
per cent of the people of the United
States are familiar by sight with re
productions of the painting Its re
productions probably have been avail
able In than reproduce
tions of any other painting produced
by an American artist,
“Needless to say, it
widespread and continued Interest”
Mr. Devereux declares. “Yet in spite
of the acquaintance of numbers with
the masterpiece very few have much
knowledge of it Very little is writ
ten of it. Few know its history.”
Willard, the paintér, a chip of old
Yankee stock, was born in Bedford,
Ohio, August 22, 1830,
“The Spirit of 76" depicts a erisls
on a battlefield. First, a retreat took
place. The broken cannon and the
dying soldier in the foreground show
where the line stood. Ont of the re
treat came the trio of musicians with
their music thrilling new courage in
the hearts of their comrades, The flag
and line have changed direction. and
the forees are ready as one to charge
back against the enemy, Defeat is about
to become victory. After being ex-
hibited at the Centennial exposition at
Philadelphia, where it became nation.
ally known, and in several other cities
the painting was purchased by Gen
eral Devereux and presented to Mar
blehead, Mass, the town of his birth.
age
fifing as they
across a battlefield.
Says
more homes
has arorsed
His Dream
of the
i
th
Then, Now on
Fourth of July
ESERVANCE of ti
Fourth of July
first
Can in no
be compared with the
eelebrat-
way
fashion of
day I
recreation and a day of rest
for some, mark
; the anniversary of the udop
Declaration of Independ
he k
however, is
present
ing the ireworks,
HOw go to
casual glance through
history,
ence A
the
enough to convince anybody that few
lays have filled
pages of
been with so many
Nation Secure in the Loyalty of
“Young America”
other events of world-sweeping char
acter and lmportance,
Long before the Declaration was
adopted, July 4 was a marked day,
and it has been ever since. To pick
only a few of the events that have oe-
curred on this day:
John Adams died, aged ninety, 1526,
Thomas Jefferson died, aged eighty-
three, 1820,
James Monroe died, aged seventy-
three, 1851,
Calvin Coolidge born, 1872
Nathaniel Hawthorne born, 1804,
Giuseppe Garibaldi born, 1520.
Stephen Foster (author of “My 01d
Kentucky Home”) born, 1526.
Surrender of Vicksburg, 1868.
Cornerstone of Washington monn.
ment laid, 1848,
Providence, R. 1, founded by Roger
Williams, 1630, :
Work on Erie canal begun, 1817.
The first Fourth of July that re
ceives historic mention after the adop-
tion of the Declaration of Independ-
ence was only twe years liter. On
that day the Tory John Butler, with
a party of loyalists and Indians, raid.
ed the beautiful Wyoming valley In
Pennsylvania while most of the men
were absent on duty with the army.
The women and children, the old per.
sons and the sick ones, had taken
refuge In the wooden fort, but under
promise of protection they surrend.
and were butchered, |
yt
bhombardmes
LR Henry
ish commander
physician
his pleaders leave the flo
fine, as
to becin
the bombardment
The Americans were pis on a
¢h
ship heyond danger hong
treated courteously, we held there
during the
deck of the
Americans
ment of Fort McHenry.
The
from
the
t
watched the bomb
ntl the
ritish Hiroe
and
know
irrendered or
firing ceased before dawn
did
fort had s
the anxious prisoners
not
whether the
not, But
the starspangled banner stil)
above the fort: it
the
watching
his
It was because he was
at the very moment when
it celebrated was being enacted that
made it so vividly realistic. “The
rockets’ red glare, bombs bursting in
air,” before his eyes as he
wrote, giving ample proof “that our
flag was still there” proof which “the
dawn’s early light” confirmed,
the reven lod
aflont
had successfully
And
was
morning Heght
withstood bombardment,
Key, while anxiously,
moved fo write famous ode
writing It
the event
were
wv Ready -
for the Parade
PEPE LOPOP PPPOE
—-— —"
Stars Represent States
The stars on the flag represent the
states collectively but not individually,
and the idea that a particular star rep-
resents a particular state is erroneous,
CORDING to many histori
ans there were several cere
the first
of Awerican In-
on July 4, 1777,
says the Detroit News. The
records show that at noon on
that day the armed
alleys In the Delaware
the
On the
was held by
Portsmouth, N
patriotic
rills wrought
monies celebrating
- #nniversury
2 dependence
Ca . i
>
~~»
£v ships
river, at
flew “eolors of the
States” i
day =a
young Ia
who with
nnd
sine
the
H.
enthusiasm many
out of their own
gowns a beautiful
Stumngled Banner
that
% were holsted
mothers’
This eoincides
report
the Siars and
aloft on the ves.
tnleigh in Portsmouth harbor on
more than 150 years apo that
i Gansevoort and his little com
¢
fending Fort
present
SX) men were de
resolut
the
[ the new
Was ransacked 1
King British and allied tro re
the frst ax the
that the Stars
time, so far
ards show,
actually
displayed
EARLY
Gow Waiter
(mt Buen #100 Penament
and en
The date was August 8, 1777.
birthday of the Stars
nnd June 14, 1777. when
the Continental congress passed a res
‘That the flag of the 13 Unit
13 stripes, alternate red
++ that the union be 13
white In a field,
new
before a hostile
emy,
threatening
official
Siripes was
States be
slars,
blue representin
constellation
Nearly six months before the
i ¥ oor 4
tion of the flag by
congress, OG
Washington crossed
captured 1,000 Hessians in his brillias
attack on Trenton, Artists of the time
show the Father of Our Country cross
ing the river in a boat displaying the
Bturs and
fn this doubtful evi
familiar sige of the
Stripes
have originated in
dence. which
the artists’ imagination, there Is noth-
vé that the Stars and Stripe
#l this time,
Creat
maintain th
i the Netherlands
Francis Hopkinson
the Declarati
pghmitted a b
rs of
enendence,
rrems in 1979 for the designing
; of the United States of
"IE old-fashioned Fourth of
July celebration of a quar.
/\ ter century ago was an
’ event looked forward to
great and
preparations by Individuals
with Interest
es towns and cities
he celebration asually
in a grove, near the county
seal or another prominent town, where
there was an abundance of shade and
Delegations would come from
neighboring and hamlets,
procession of wagons
for the old folks, women and children
and a snappy cavalcade of boys and
horseback.
At the head of the procession the
water,
townships
each with its
girls on
Old-Time Celebration.
the local band, These country bands
were of martinl type-two fifes, two
the performers were, as a rule, Civil
drummer was a proud distinction, The
bands gave patriotic color to the scene
a8 the delegation passed along the
winding trails,
Each country division would be In
command of a captain, usually an ex-
red and his military hat, The divi
sions would reach town early and pa.
tiently wait at the edge of town or
along side streets until assigned their
the “grand
Prizes were awarded for the best dis.
play by a delegation. The
grand parade wonld form at 10 o'clock
places n procession.”
tated
visiting
streets, cir.
{he
the principal
rquare,
with bands playing
trinmphantly enter
grounds, while snap-
ping firecrackers, fluttering flags and
booming cannon proclaimed the sent
ments of the day.
pass along
cic the court house CTO%S
river bridge and,
and banners flving
t bration
he cele
The county seat contribution to thie
grand parade was often extensive and
spectacular. To be its commander or
“chief marshal of the day” was a cov.
eted distinction. Usually *Major” or
“Colonel” somebody wonld be chosen
and his word was law for that
His red sash and hat with gold tas
sels distinguished him from the cap
delegations, who scted as
his aids. To fill this position often
made the occupant a candidate for
sheriff, mayor or the state legisla.
ture. The grand procession, headed
by this dignitary and a brass band,
tains of
ter the grounds.’
Upon reaching the grounds and feed
Ing and watering the horses—no small
fask-—the morning exercises began. |
The glee clubs would sing: the pres. |
ident of the day would deliver an ad
dress, and some favored school teach.
er would read the Declaration of In |
dependence, :
These exercises were only heard by
those near the speaker's stand; for |
many were crowding around the pump |
or the barrels of “free ice water, as |
advertised,” getting ready for dinner; |
while the noisy battle of fire erack. :
ers and torpedoes was being fought |
by small boys, {
And then “dinner,” with the tubs
and baskets filled with old-fashioned |
food, Was there ever such sliced ham,
Juicy fried chicken, homemade rolls
and doughnuts, eggs and plekles, Jams, |
relishes, preserves, pies, cakes and
hot coffee? A long table supplied the
bungry wayfarer, but many preferred
to dine by families or neighborhoods,
even at the risk of being called “styl.
ish and stuck ap.”
Sometimes there were supplies of
“barbecued beef," “tumble In" and
huge kettles of black coffee free for
all, When such attractions were ad-
poluts 30 or more miles away,
§
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the emergencies
entirely different
ing in the United Sta
Often the foreign cris
sudden fall in value of
units, or resulted
tion
“In
war,”
for sn
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