Documents to Be Read July 4th
The annual public reading of the Declaration of Independence of July 1776, the British reply to the Declaration of September 1776, King George III’s speech to Parliament of October 1776, and the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution will take place on Monday, July 4th, at 1:30 p.m. outside the Williams College Museum of Art. Williamstown Theatre Festival actors Steven Weber (appearing in Three Hotels through July 24th) and Jessica Hecht (in A Streetcar Named Desire through July 3rd) will read the Declaration and Preamble, while the British texts will be read by Lewis Black (appearing in One Slight Hitch beginning July 6th). The Chapin Library’s collection of the Founding Documents of the United States is on display at the Williams College Museum of Art until the completion of the Stetson-Sawyer project in 2014. – WGH