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Your Guide to Ithaca’s Fourth of July Festivities
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Here’s what Tompkins County has to offer for Fourth of July festivities.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/fourth-of-july/)
Here’s what Tompkins County has to offer for Fourth of July festivities.
Every Fourth of July, Americans are bombarded with advertisements about red and white products — it almost feels patriotic to spend money. Oftentimes, these companies advertise food sales — five dollar watermelon or hot dogs on a stars-and-stripes background — and imply that these items have some inherent patriotic identity. All-American men eat meat, a Costco ad might urge you. Most of us don’t truly believe that we are performing our civic duty when we buy a hot dog; however, there was a time in American history when one’s diet was directly tied to their love and devotion — or lack thereof — to America. To understand American patriotism as it relates to food, we must go back to British Colonialism in the early 1600s.