Four for the Fourth: Emeria Jaynesford

Easily my favorite holiday during the summer is coming fast. Fireworks, watermelon laced vodka, outdoor jam sessions, hours baking in the sun on the lake....en fuego! To mark the holiday SL style, I'll be rolling out four ladies that are putting the hot into the holiday.

Emeria Jaynesford

 

The Liberty Bell was rung not on July 4, 1776, but on July 8, 1776, to celebrate the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. When it was rung in honor of George Washington’s birthday in 1846, it cracked irreparably.

 

The Fourth of July commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It was initially adopted by Congress on this date in 1776, but then it was revised and the final version was adopted two days later.

 

Several countries used the Declaration of Independence as a beacon in their own struggles for freedom. Among them, France. Then later, Greece, Poland, Russia and many countries in South America.

 

"Yankee Doodle," one of many patriotic songs in the United States, was originally sung prior to the Revolution by British military officers who mocked the unorganized and buckskin-wearing “Yankees” with whom they fought during the French and Indian War.

 

Three U.S. presidents actually died on July 4. Two of them passed away within hours of each other on July 4, 1826: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The two had been political rivals and then friends later in life. The other to share the distinction was James Monroe, who died July 4, 1831

 

On July 6, 1776, the Pennsylvania Evening Post became the first newspaper to print the now-historic Declaration of Independence.