Michael Breshgold, 71, is a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He said that, for him, the July Fourth holiday is a reminder that "we have a country, which up to this point has been free [and] democratic." ...

About 60 people attended the Rokeby Museum ’s annual reading of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.” Douglass delivered the speech on July 5th, 1852, to an ...

Previous coverage: Schoolcraft 4th of July parade 'like Christmas being canceled,' organizers say The parade, a nearly century-old tradition in Schoolcraft, was called off June 25 --just nine days ...

There was an Independence Day celebration of a different kind in Ferrisburgh on Wednesday, where people gathered to hear the words of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered before all ...