A Celebration of Our Nation’s 242nd Birthday

Leaders of Tomorrow

and 

the Rye Free Reading Room 

Present

A Celebration of Our Nation’s 242^nd Birthday

Wednesday July 4^th, 2018

10:00 AM

Selected Speeches and the

Reading of the Declaration of Independence

Inside the Rye Free Reading Room

(Air Conditioned)

Start Independence Day as we share the origins and meaning of our national holiday 

Followed by Patriotic Singing and the Unfurling of the 

American Legion’s Historic American Flag 

On the Village Green

Special Thanksto Commander Fred de Barros 

of the American Legion Post #128, Director Chris Shoemaker, 

Managing Librarian Maria Lagonia of the Rye Free Reading Room, 

former Mayor and Judge John Carey andall of today’s participants.

Rain or Shine