In Photos: Celebrating the Fourth of July

Nine-year-old Wyatt Stuhr waits for the start of the sixteenth annual Harper Street Parade in Newberry, South Carolina
Photograph: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Conductor Heather Pickett directs the band during an Independence Day concert by the American Legion Band of Greater Kansas City
Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

Two children ride on a mini all-terrain vehicle down Main Street in Barnstable Village on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters