Mec Dec Day 2011- Re-enactors on the streets of Uptown Charlotte. (40 images)

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Mec Dec Day is a celebration held each year in uptown Charlotte. Though some historians question its existence, the Mecklenburg document is said to have been signed on May 20, 1775, a year before Thomas Jefferson's more famous declaration.

This gallery has some of what went on at this year event. The last time I photographed this event, they shot the cannon down Trade Street, not into the park. The guys doing the shooting told me that it shook the windows in some of the...
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