CENTER CITY -- America's Birthday was celebrated this past Thursday, but the date July 8th also holds a significant moment in time. The First Public reading of the Declaration of Independence was July ...

The July 4th Project brought together city, county and community leaders to remember America's beginnings.WLWT's own Courtis Fuller was among the voices, Reading the Declaration of Independence in ...

THAT’S A TRADITION AS WELL. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. YOU GOT IT RIGHT. IF YOU ...

COLONIE – Colonie Town Supervisor Peter Crummey and the Greater Loudonville Association announce the annual reading of the Declaration of Independence at the Loudonville Green in Colonie, New York, on ...

The Berks County Liberty Bell was first rung 249 years ago. Its ringing on July 8, 1776, announced the birth of the United States of America, calling for local residents to gather for a reading of the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - More than 500 community members gathered in downtown Charleston Thursday morning for the 13th annual reading of the Declaration of Independence. Members of the Washington ...

On this day 249 years ago, Isaiah Thomas, publisher of the Massachusetts Spy newspaper and a onetime Worcester postmaster, stood on a porch of the town's meetinghouse and recited the Declaration of ...

HOUSE. OUR PETER ELIOPOULOS TAKES US THERE. FLAGS, FANFARE AND CELEBRATING FREEDOM, WE GATHER NOT ONLY TO CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE, BUT TO REFLECT ON THE VALUES THAT UNITE US AS A PEOPLE. AN ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Local youth activists are advocating for change in western Massachusetts with a reading of a rewritten Declaration of Independence. Activists in the community have come ...

Description of the bells, facsim of the Declaration of Independence and "The story of bell-ringing" by William I. Nichols on slipcase. Fredric March; Burgess Meredith Declaration of Independence, read ...

“The Declaration’s Journey” opens with a dramatic juxtaposition: A Windsor chair owned by Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, faces the small, rusting steel bench on ...

A public reading of the Declaration of Independence on the south steps of the Hamilton County Courthouse was held on Wednesday. The event was co-sponsored by Hamilton County Government, the City of ...