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What vision: Adams wrote a letter to his Abigail uncannily predicting Independence Day would be celebrated by future generations with annual fes- tivals “beginning with church prayers, followed by parades, games, sports, the firing of can- non, bells ringing, bonfires and illuminations: “Through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.” “What society can plan a future without an intimate knowledge of its own past?”


The inscription under the


Jefferson Memorial Dome in Washington, D. C., reads of his: “… eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” How omnivorous a reader he was is revealed in all he wrote. When he was 68, Jefferson wrote to Charles Wilson Peale, lines that move anyone who also loves gardens: “…if heaven had given me a choice of posi- tion and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth… “No occupation is so delightful as the culture of a garden—for


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our family table…”tho’ an old man, I am but a young gar- dener.” Eight years older than Jefferson, John Adams, by un- canny coincidence, also died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th an- niversary of the Declaration. If you travel to New York, please take time to visit not only the Empire State Building but go to see, up close, after an exciting ferry ride, The Statue of Liber- ty in Liberty Park. Perhaps it is due to my family heritage that it holds so much meaning for us. It may be possible to stop and see Ellis Island as well. Like Jefferson, many of us “cannot live without books.” Every 4th of July, we consult the 1999 edition of our “The Original White House Cook Book of 1887.” Incredibly de- lightful, avoid any later “up- date” those are not half so “up- beat!”


Although we eat red straw- berries, blueberries and vanilla ice cream, you will find such gems as “Cherry Bounce” in the book. Part of that recipe


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