July 2026 | Inside This Issue

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Editor’s Note:

As we celebrate our country’s Semiquincentennial this year, I’m taken back to memories of 1976. My nine-year-old self is watching the Montreal Summer Olympics on my family’s one television set (which didn’t have a remote), Jimmy Carter is President (anyone else remember the Carter family’s peanut butter and Billy Beer?), “Rocky” is playing at the box office (I can still hum the theme) and the Bicentennial Quarter is introduced into circulation in honor of America’s 200^th (there are a few in my junk drawer). It seems like only yesterday, when, in fact, it was fifty years ago. Time flies when you’re having fun!

Happy 250^th Birthday, America.

—Ashley McHugh, Editor

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