Fourth of July Party in the Park gearing up for ‘spark’-tacular weekend

The Fourth of July Party in the Park, including vendors, live music, a kids’ parade, fireworks and more, will begin at 5 p.m. Friday, July 4 at Fair Park in Childress.
The Fourth of July Party in the Park, including vendors, live music, a kids’ parade, fireworks and more, will begin at 5 p.m. Friday, July 4 at Fair Park in Childress.

CHILDRESS — The day commemorating independence for the United States of America “ought to be solemnized with pop and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations for one end of this continent to the other from this time forward and forever more,” former President John Adams wrote in 1776. 

Now, 249 years later, many of those traditions still stand true, as well as…