• Cakes covered in cool whip icing and strawberries & blueberries in the shape of a flag 

This memory is associated with the 1976 Bicentennial celebration. I just turned 13. My birthday is July 3^rd and my birthday always had a particularly AM Rev celebration feel. Pool parties + handmade posters of George Washington were everywhere with streamers of R, W, & blue. I got Elton John’s cassette tape of album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and played it on new Red Take-N-Tape.  

I hear that album today and I am taken back to sitting on the roof and watching the fireworks & the tall ships in the Boston harbor on TV. The music and  food was key to this memory.