Chattahoochee High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Chattahoochee, FL)

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1876 - the year of the centennial. All across the nation people celebrated the 100th birthday. This was done in many ways, from Ginger AJe glasses to special newspapers and a broadside painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Also, the telephone was a tremendous factor in the progress of the country. Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” was excluded and even banned from many libraries. Women’s styles were changing with the beginning of the “Gibson Girl” era. After the celebration, the nation settled down to the events of the next one hundred years. There were wars, a depression, political upheavels, and a change in pol- icy to coincide with a changing world. Again the USA survived and is beginning the bi-centennial celebration in . . . 7

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1976 Two hundred years old -many changes, but still a nation of varied interests and much beauty. Fifty states united together under one constitution and one flag. The constitution has been changed, but its basic concept still stands. Some times tattered, sometimes torn, the flag waves proudly over all the land. From the center of government in Washington, D.C. to the towering moun- tainpeaks.' rom the windswept plains to the sand covered shores;from the ma estic orest to the shimmering bayous, one can feel pride in this great country. The past is woven into the present; the present is a constant progression to the future. Who can say what the uture wili hold in . . . 9