Announcing the Friends of the 1836 Meeting House 5th annual Fourth of July Declaration of Independence Recitation Event. This family friendly event will take place on Tuesday, July 4th at the North Andover Common starting at 11:00am. Our program includes State Representatives Tram Nguyen and Franciso Paulino reading the Declaration of Independence. Local activists and leaders will read other historic speeches. This year our guests will hear segments from the Frederick Douglass speech The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech and the Doctrine of Discovery, a Papal Bull (decree) sent from Pope Alexander VI to the king and queen of Spain in 1493 and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Also, local musicians will perform several songs relevant to our readings including I Hear Them All/This Land is Your Land medley by Rockwood Taylor, an original song entitled United in America, written and performed by the Choral Majority and Lean on Me performed by Bill Putnam and John Chang of the White Street Band. Joanna Kerr, Director of the North Andover Historical Society will narrate the program. Get more information at https://www.1836meetinghouse.org/
The Event is sponsored by the Friends of the 1836 Meeting House, the North Andover Historical Society with support from the North Andover Festival Committee and a generous grant from Mass Humanities provided through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.