Your 1976 Memory Belongs Here (Two Spots Left)

Before we celebrate the 250th, let's remember the 200th.

Somewhere in your house — maybe in a shoebox, maybe in your head — there’s a 1976 story that nobody’s heard yet.

A parade you rode in. A road trip your family took in the station wagon. A pie you decorated like a flag and ate in the backyard while fireworks popped off in every direction. Those memories are still in there, and this newsletter has room for two more of them before it wraps for good.

What could you send in? Here’s an example:

This week, fellow Substacker Heather Rojo shared a post that is so fun. She wrote about her family’s 1976 road trip to Walt Disney World in their Pontiac Safari wagon. About riding on a candy stripers float in the Fourth of July parade in Holden, Massachusetts. About a blueberry pie she and her friend Marion decorated like an American flag and ate in the backyard with the neighbors while fireworks went off all around them.

Memories of 1976 and 2001 Anniversaries of the Revolutionary War

It’s the kind of memory that makes you remember your own. Your town’s parade. Your family’s car. Your backyard on the night of July 4, 1976.

The Bicentennial Memory Project has two reader slots left before this newsletter publishes its final edition on July 5th. Two spots for your story to show up in a few thousand inboxes and remind a stranger that they lived through the same America you did.

Your piece doesn’t need to be long. It doesn’t need to be polished. It just needs to be real.

Send in Your Memories of 1976

Got a 1976 memory? Send it to bicentennialmemoryproject@gmail.com. Two slots. First come, first served.

And if you’re already writing about the Bicentennial on your own Substack, email me your link. I want to read it, and I want other readers to find you. Let’s get these stories linked up before the 250th arrives.

Sixty-two days from now, America turns 250. Before it does, the stories from the 200th deserve to be told. Yours included.

—Denyse