host posted on June 30, 2009 17:55
Growing up in Holyoke, Massachusetts, so close to ‘The Cradle of Liberty’ and other places, where so many historic events took place, gave me a bit of an advantage as far as appreciating the true meaning of the 4th of July from a fairly young age. I always looked forward to the day, maybe even more than some of the other big holidays we all celebrate, and especially knowing that it was declared a legal holiday in 1941, the year that I was born.
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