Costumed guides will read the Declaration of Independence and then lead a parade through the manor.
He used to stand on the steps of City Hall and read the Declaration of Independence to all that would listen.
But one core ritual, easily carried out in ten minutes, should be to read the Declaration of Independence out loud.
First, John Fox, an actor, will portray Philip Van Cortlandt, the son of the estate's founder and a former Revolutionary officer, and read the Declaration of Independence.
And just as Lincoln did not merely read the Declaration of Independence over the dead, Dr. King did not just read the Gettysburg Address in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial.
Some people still read the Declaration of Independence aloud on the Fourth (and the Times still annually publishes a full-page facsimile in that morning's skinny paper), but Independence Day is mainly about hot dogs and fireworks.
Inside Wesleyan chapel, Kimberly Szewczyk, the chief of interpretation and education at the Women's Rights national historical park in Seneca Falls, pointed to the podium where Stanton read the Declaration of Sentiments.
Even in years when the town did not put on a ceremony, Mr. Banning said, his father would appear at the church, sometimes in a heavy rain, to read the Declaration.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Some people still read the Declaration of Independence aloud on the Fourth (and the Times still annually publishes a full-page facsimile in that morning's skinny paper), but Independence Day is mainly about hot dogs and fireworks.
It is important to understand that ever since 1969, when he was a young civil rights lawyer working in Atlanta, Mr. Siegel had made it practically a sacrament to sit in a public park on Independence Day and read the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, right down to the last amendment.
