Bicentennial
1976 was two hundred years after the Declaration of Independence. That event usually considered the start of the United States of America. 1976 was the Bicentennial.
We were in the age of too much media for too little message. The manufactured event was one of the answers. The Bicentennial was a manufactured event.
If you watched tv, or read newspapers, you could not get away from this event. And, by July8, the entire thing was forgotten. People were over the Bicentennial.
There is a median strip on a road in Brookhaven. It is between Oglethorpe University and Patterson’s Funeral Home, with a Christian Church as the referee. Someone had the idea of planting bushes on this strip of land, and calling it a Bicentennial Project. Governor George Busbee came out for the Dedication.
The Bicentennial is mostly forgotten today.
Chamblee54 
leave a comment