The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...
Many years ago a reader, Wallace Hooper, wrote to the Chronicle publisher with this request: “To celebrate this and every July Fourth, print the entire text of the Declaration of Independence.” In ...
METHUEN — The Sixth Annual Independence Day Reading of the Declaration of Independence starts at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 4, at the Meeting House Hill Cemetery on East Street. The cemetery will be open ...