Celebrate Democracy with Us!

Written By John Lennhoff

Join us on July 4th at 11am

on the North Andover Common

The Friends of the 1836 Meeting House is proud to announce the 6th Annual 4th of July Declaration of Independence Recitation Event on the North Andover Common. Join us for a history and music filled program Narrated by Joanna Kerr, Director of the North Andover Historical Society. Our program includes:

  • North Andover Land Acknowledgement – read by Alex Bace, Governors Academy student.

  • United in America – performed by the Choral Majority

  • The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) – read by State Rep Nguyen, Sen Finegold.

  • The Bill of Rights (12/15/1791) – read by NAMS Civics in Action students

  • I Hear Them All/This Land is .. Medley – performed by Rockwood Taylor

  • Excerpts from What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass (7/5/1852) – read by Pastor Lydon Myers, Andover Baptist Church

  • Wade in the Water – performed by the Choral Majority

  • Excerpts from Imperialism, by William Jennings Bryan (8/8/1900) – read by Judy Eskin, co-leader of Greater Andover Indivisible.

  • Change is gonna come  – performed by Rockwood Taylor

  • Excerpts from I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr (8/28/1963) – performed by Ralph Bledsoe, North Andover African American History Committee

Get information about this years event and see videos from past years events.

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