Sestercentennial Sounds Like A Sneeze
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THAT REMINDS ME OF: America’s 250th birthday.
Two hundred and fifty is one of those numbers that sounds important but doesn’t quite land the way round numbers do. A quarter-millennium. Two and a half centuries. It’s enough time to feel genuinely ancient, but not enough to trigger that specific reverence we reserve for centuries. Nobody’s commissioning a solemn oil painting about 250 years. The semicentennial doesn’t even have a great name — “sestercentennial” is technically correct and sounds like a sneeze.
The country’s first birthday, on the other hand, was an absolute production. Philadelphia threw a party in 1777 that featured cannonfire, bonfires, and what eyewitnesses described as “great plenty of good things to eat and drink.” John Adams had predicted the whole affair a year earlier — writing to Abigail that the anniversary ought to be celebrated with “pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” He was not a man who thought small. He was also, for the record, deeply into Madeira — the colonists’ wine of choice, widely considered the most fashionable thing a person could drink at the time. Some traditions just make sense.
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