America on its 250th anniversary

America turns 250 years old this Saturday, and it will be a time of great celebration across the nation as well as right here in the Greenbelt. Celebrations are planned in Childress, Wellington and Memphis this weekend, and you can read all about them in the Intrepid’s July Fourth section.

Your editor was pretty young when America turned 200 years old in 1976, but I still remember well the Spirt of…