Reading the Declaration of Independence

For the last 10 years or so, on July Fourth, some Sea Cliff residents have been holding an event where they ring a huge brass bell, and then read the Declaration of Independence out loud, and then tell the assembled crowd what happened to a number  of the signers of the Declaration.  A number of them were killed in the war, others had their houses burned to the ground by the British.  It is a very sobering, very powerful ceremony.  We have always been in Connecticut on the fourth, so this is the first year we could take part, and it was wonderful to finally experience all of this.