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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Looking Back at the Fourth of July
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:26
	Publish Date:		2021-07-07 11:40:34
	Description:		Another Fourth of July holiday has come and gone. It was a happy experience for almost everyone in the Northwoods. A few people, though, yearn for the good old days when more potent fireworks were available. But did that make the holiday any better? Historian Gary Entz looks back at early earlier Fourth of July celebrations. A recent glance through a newspaper revealed this lament: “The small boy of today doesn’t know what he’s missing—though his father does. For the Fourth of July ain’t what it used to be. An American tradition—fireworks—is only a dim but fond memory in most of the country.” That quotation came from 1955, which begs the question: what was so unacceptable about events sixty-six years ago that the writer felt it did not measure up to expectations? In 1955, the Fourth of July celebration in Rhinelander was called the Hodag Log Jamboree. It was a three-day festival that started on Saturday July second and culminated on the evening of the fourth. Saturday events included
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