Happy Independence Day 2015!

Evansville, IN -
Friday July 03, 2015

May the Good Lord bless the United States of America!


The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes.

July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy handwritten copy that was signed in August (the copy now displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) It’s also the date that was printed on the Dunlap Broadsides, the original printed copies of the Declaration that were circulated throughout the new nation.

For the first 15 or 20 years after the Declaration was written, people didn’t celebrate it much on any date. It was too new and too much else was happening in the young nation. By the 1790s, a time of bitter partisan conflicts, the Declaration had become controversial. One party, the Democratic-Republicans, admired Jefferson and the Declaration. But the other party, the Federalists, thought the Declaration was too French and too anti-British, which went against their current policies.

After the War of 1812, the Federalist party began to come apart and the new parties of the 1820s and 1830s all considered themselves inheritors of Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans. Printed copies of the Declaration began to circulate again, all with the date July 4, 1776, listed at the top. The deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on July 4, 1826, may even have helped to promote the idea of July 4 as an important date to be celebrated.

Celebrations of the Fourth of July became more common as the years went on and in 1870, almost a hundred years after the Declaration was written, Congress first declared July 4 to be a national holiday as part of a bill to officially recognize several holidays, including Christmas. Further legislation about national holidays, including July 4, was passed in 1939 and 1941.

Congratulations To 2015 PKC National Champion Stylish Trader!!

Flora, IL -
Sunday June 28, 2015

Congratulations to Jed Finley of Indianola, Iowa and PCH NCH Stylish Trader for winning the $20,000 2015 PKC National Championship tonight in Flora, Illinois.


The second place $12,000 winner is; PCH Piney Creek Sweat Pea, owned by Larry Watson of Sulphur Springs, Texas and handled by Jeff McCord of Prattville, Alabama.


Third place $6,000 winner is; PCH Eli Stone, owned by Heath Johnson of Burnsville, Mississippi and handled by Scott Faulkner of Corinth, Mississippi.

2015 Union, SC - PKC $500 Pro-Classic

Union, SC -
Pro Classic
06/27/15

Congratulations to the four finalist of the Union, SC, $500 Pro Classic!

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