July 4th 2024 Fireworks, Events Around Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY, CT — Independence Day is fast approaching, so it's time to find out where you can celebrate in and around Middlebury. Area events include fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun.To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going on in Middlebury and the surrounding areas.Quassy Amusement Park via its website:"July 4: 3-D Fireworks - Spend the holiday at the park and enjoy 3-D Fireworks after dark with special viewing glasses sold for $2. Proceeds benefit Give Kids The World Village. Presenting partners: TD Bank, Price Chopper," according to its website. Quassy Amusement Park is located at 2132 Middlebury Road.Today, Americans celebrate the birth of a new nation with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn’t happen until 1941.During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III’s birthday were replaced with mock funerals as a symbolic break from the crown.It was an exciting time in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress voted to break from the crown and, two days later on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies —New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia — to adopt the Declaration of Independence.The first annual commemoration of the nation’s independence was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.The article July 4th 2024 Fireworks, Events Around Middlebury appeared first on Woodbury-Middlebury, CT Patch.
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