Sugar City, Idaho: The Dayley Report

  America 250: Happy Independence Day! I was a little kid in Idaho Falls during America's Bicentennial celebration. I remember burning my hand on a sparkler that year. The parades, picnics, BBQs, and fireworks were great family and community fun then, and they still are today fifty years later! I was recently reading about the events during our nation's 50th Anniversary in 1826. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two key members of the great generation that founded our country both died that year on July 4th, a "coincidence" that Daniel Webster called a "dispensation of the Divine Providence" and though these two men were gone, Webster said, "their work doth not perish with them." And further: "No age will come in which the American Revolution will appear less than it is, one of the greatest events in human history." Can we ever fully understand the miraculous events of that era? Probably not. The Revolutionary War, as trying and traumatic ...