
250 Years Strong, and Still Just Getting Started
1776 ★ 2026 250 Happy Birthday, America A quarter of a millennium of grit, and the best chapters are still ahead. This Fourth of July is not just another day off. It is the day America turns 250, and a milestone like that deserves a real moment of your attention. Two and a half centuries ago, a group of ordinary people decided they could govern themselves, build their own future, and answer to no crown. Everything that followed, the setbacks and the comebacks, the invention and the reinvention, grew out of that one stubborn idea. A quarter of a millennium later, we are still writing the story, and we are proud to be a small part of it. 250 Years of Showing Up There is something worth sitting with in a number like 250. It stands for generations of people who showed up, did the work, and handed something better to the ones who came next. Farmers and machinists, teachers and truck drivers, engineers and welders, all of them putting in honest days so their kids could reach a little higher. That spirit never faded. You can still find it on factory floors, in small shops, and in the quiet































