Heritage, Horizon and Festival

Bruce Blackburn's 1975 logo for the American Revolution Bicentennial

By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. By the 1900s, there were 48 and then 50 by 1976 as Alaska and Hawaii became states in 1958 and 1959, respectively.

1976 was to be a big year, the 200th anniversary. After the Water…