AP PHOTOS: Americans celebrate the Fourth of July
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?Spectators watch fireworks streak across the sky during the Fanfare and Fireworks celebration at the University of Florida on Tuesday, July 3, 2012, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/The Gainesville Sun, Matt Stamey)
Spectators watch fireworks streak across the sky during the Fanfare and Fireworks celebration at the University of Florida on Tuesday, July 3, 2012, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/The Gainesville Sun, Matt Stamey)
Sheila Grimes of South Berwick, Maine looks through piles of fireworks at Hilltop Fireworks, Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Somersworth, N.H. The conventional wisdom is that Maine?s new law legalizing consumer fireworks will hurt New Hampshire fireworks stores because Mainers won?t have to travel to buy their missiles, Roman candles and exploding aerial displays. But the owners of Hilltop Fireworks in Somersworth, N.H., along the southern Maine border, say they?ve had more Maine customers in the days leading up to the Fourth of the July than in previous years.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Gabi Hogg, 7, and her mother Jenny Hogg share a moment before mounting a bike for the July Fourth Parade on Highway 77 in Panama City, Fla. Wednesday July 4, 2012. (AP Photo/The News Herald, Andrew P Johnson)
Nicolas D'Annunzio, 4, left, and Ian Strother, 5, join the parade of bikes, wagons and scooters decorated for the annual Riverside Citizens Association 4th of July Pancake Breakfast and Children's Parade in Central Riverside Park in Wichita, Kan., Wednesday, July 4, 2012. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Mike Hutmacher) MAGS OUT AND TV OUT
Steve Zeender of Towson, Md. leaves his home with gasoline cans to refill for his power generator Wednesday, July 4, 2012. He is among hundreds of thousands from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic who are spending their Fourth of July like America's founders, without electricity in their homes. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
Across the United States, Americans are celebrating 236 years of independence with backyard barbeques, family gatherings and, of course, fireworks.
While many celebrations have been scaled-down or canceled due to weather-related power outages and concerns of spreading wildfires amid dry, hot weather, many are still celebrating, albeit in less-than-traditional ways.
Hundreds of thousands from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic are spending the Fourth of July like America's founders did in 1776, without the conveniences of electricity and air conditioning.
Fireworks on the National Mall in Washington are planned to go forward.
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Here's a running photo gallery, updated throughout the day, of celebrations across the U.S.
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Read more about the Fourth of July: http://apne.ws/O4NrL9
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