5 Things for Monday

1. Weather. National Weather Service says: Mostly sunny, with a high near 91. Northwest wind between 5 and 9 mph.

2. Kick off your Fourth with the . Starts at 9:30 a.m.

3. Then head over to Fonthill for the celebration, which starts at noon. Don't miss the decorated bike contest!

4. Before 4 p.m., you can catch Doylestownian Tom Lingenfelter's presentation of a at the Moland House.

5. (You knew this one was coming) On this day in 1776, everything we hold dear today - everything that we believe, that we teach our children, that we cherish yet often take for granted - was spelled out on parchment, as the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence severing the fledgling United States of America from Great Britain. The War for Independence would drag on for five more years before the United States became a free nation.

And 50 years later to the day, the architects of the nation's freedom, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, would die on the same day, within hours of each other.