. . was linked on the Internet. Thanksgiving, Paul Revere's ride, the Boston Tea Party and other mythology were published one to an issue of Smithsonian Magazine (to which I had a subscription - but don't believe I kept those issues) during the year before the Bicentenial.
One distraught citizen wrote a letter saying, "I know all this stuff must be true because you have all the evidence, but isn't this the wrong time to be publishing it?".