Back in the day: When Monroe celebrated America at 100

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Back in the day: When Monroe celebrated America at 100

I remember how exciting it was for our country to celebrate the bicentennial in 1976, so I decided to look back at the Monroe Sentinel from 100 years earlier to see how the local communities celebrated the Centennial. I would imagine that people here at that time had known people, maybe their parents or grandparents, who shared what it was like to have lived in this country when it gained its independence. I’ll share here how the paper reported …