The Declaration of Independence
I'm planning to sign in to Monticello's live stream tomorrow as they talk about Independence Day (11 am EST).
I remember vividly, many many years ago, when I was an intern at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, living in the Capitol Hill District, visiting the National Archive on the 4th of July.
It was moving then.
I listened to NPR hosts reading it this morning.
It seemed more timely than ever as we, as Americans, face a curiously leader-free America, with our values needing to be front and center again.
And when my gardening companion and I returned in our post-graduate school years, to the Smithsonian's Environmental Research Center near Annapolis, for almost a decade, we enjoyed fireworks and music in front of the Washington monument for the years that we were there. It was a July ritual to go the Mall.
Monticello's visitor center has a remarkable interpretive display about how the American Revolution inspired revolutions around liberty around the world.
I so hope for that again.
I remember vividly, many many years ago, when I was an intern at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, living in the Capitol Hill District, visiting the National Archive on the 4th of July.
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It was moving then.
I listened to NPR hosts reading it this morning.
It seemed more timely than ever as we, as Americans, face a curiously leader-free America, with our values needing to be front and center again.
And when my gardening companion and I returned in our post-graduate school years, to the Smithsonian's Environmental Research Center near Annapolis, for almost a decade, we enjoyed fireworks and music in front of the Washington monument for the years that we were there. It was a July ritual to go the Mall.
Monticello's visitor center has a remarkable interpretive display about how the American Revolution inspired revolutions around liberty around the world.
I so hope for that again.
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