Good Afternoon Listers, >From your Old ListMom, who loves you more than the red, white & blue, a wish to each of you for a safe and joyful celebration this Independence Day. If you decide to roam the 'net for The Fourth, I hope you will enjoy the list of websites below. This holiday some of us will eat & drink too much; some will spend the evening endangering their communities with pyrotechnics; some will parade the main streets of town dressed in funny costumes and pelt small children with candy. However, you choose to spend the 4th, please take time to remember those who authored the original doctrine for this nation's freedom, the Declaration of Independence. Such a simple concept, yet so complete that after more than two centuries, it remains the basis for every personal freedom we enjoy today. Your Old ListMom What the Presidents Did on the Fourth of July: http://gurukul.american.edu/heintze/FourthPres.htm Betsy Ross Website: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/ Fourth of July Celebrations Database: http://gurukul.american.edu/heintze/fourth.htm Thomas Jefferson's account of the circumstances leading to the Declaration of Independence: http://www.leftjustified.com/leftjust/lib/sc/ht/decl/home.html Biographies of our Founding Fathers: http://www.colonialhall.com/index.asp Declaring Independence: Drafting the documents, from the Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html A User's Guide to the Declaration of Independence: http://www.founding.com/ >From the History Channel: The Declaration of Independence: http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/exhibits/declaration/main.html Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation: http://chnm.gmu.edu/declaration/ Virtualology: The Declaration of Independence, contains scans of original documents & handwriting samples of the committee of five: http://www.thedeclarationofindependence.org/ Happy 4th of July: Celebrate America's Birthday, a look at the symbols associated with Independence Day: http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/7002/july4.html Happy Independence Day, quotes & excerpts from original documents: http://www.dzn.com/~lhindi/Declaration-of-Independence-Day.html Internet Info for Real People: 4th of July: http://www.thebee.com/bweb/iinfo110.htm Telling Our Story: A Fourth of July Celebration: http://members.aol.com/~julystory/ Independence Day on the Net: http://www.holidays.net/independence/ Independence Day Celebration: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/7623/july.html Independence Day at Sweet Petite's: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9329/july4.html The HolidaySpot.com Independence Day: http://www.theholidayspot.com/july4/ Marvelicious: Happy 4th of July: http://www.marvelicious.com/independence.html Heather's Happy HoliDaze: 4th of July: http://www.heathersholidaze.com/july-4th/