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Jul 3Liked by Mary Mahoney

I had never heard of that Girl Scout noodle Declaration of Independence and now I too can't stop thinking about it.

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This is one of my obsessions and I just can't stop thinking of follow-up questions. Where are they now? Do they still like alphabet noodles or did this end that for them?

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Jul 3Liked by Mary Mahoney

The Bicentennial was truly wild! Even though I was born a few years later, my mom saw to it that I had an array of Holly Hobbie dolls - truly a product of 70s nostalgia for “simpler times”! Also want to give a big shoutout for the bicentennial revival of the JFK-founded Operation Sail (OpSail) that happened in New York Harbor. There is nothing more on brand for boat people than coming together to just anchor in the same place, so celebrating America was certainly enough of a reason to lure in a gathering of large sailing ships (called Tall Ships) from around the world. (Here is a link for more details https://opsail.org/past-events/1976-2/ ) Even the Soviets showed up - it was wild!

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