Mr. Lanham's Diary: July 4, 1926

They attend a band concert

Julia Anne accompanied her father to church today, Anne still suffering too much from poison oak rash to attend. In the afternoon, though, “all of us,” including Mr. Lanham’s parents, went to hear a band concert.

He doesn’t mention Independence Day per se, but we have to assume there was lots of patriotic music and marches performed. The collection of e…