Firecracker Fourth
Leave it to Ben Franklin to invent something new for Independence Day celebrations 232 years onward.
At 8 p.m. Thursday in front of Independence Hall, Franklin will be marrying that quintessential seamstress, Betsy Ross. Actually, it is a life-imitates-art scene, since it will actually be Ralph Archbold, Philadelphia's premiere Franklin impersonator, marrying his fiancĂ©e, Linda Wilde, who often portrays Ross. »Read story
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Independence Day is always cause for celebration in Philadelphia. The Fourth of July parade on the Parkway dazzles onlookers with a spectacle of red, white and blue.




