Historic Richmond Town<\/a> is the center of our borough, literally, and I think also in terms of our shared past,\u201d Carr said. \u201cAnd so it\u2019s really appropriate that all of us should be gathering here today to hear the words of the Declaration of Independence.\u201d<\/p>\nHe noted that 250 years ago, the document changed the world beyond the nation\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that this is a moment for us to really be proud of our American heritage and to do so in a place whose mission is to preserve Staten Island\u2019s place in that history,\u201d Carr said.<\/p>\n
Visitors gathered at the Third County Courthouse for a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and took guided tours of the exhibition, \u201cFounding Principles: The Declaration of Independence, Civics, and Staten Island.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aline Guimont, visiting from South Orange, N.J., returned for her second Independence Day celebration at the historic site.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came here two years ago during the Fourth of July, and it was a lot of fun,\u201d Guimont said. \u201cI loved it last time and I was thinking it was going to be even better now because it\u2019s the 250th birthday of the United States, so I wanted to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Biju Koshy, a board member at Historic Richmond Town, brought his family to the celebration.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can join with all of our neighbors in remembering our past and for over 250 years here in Richmond County, with people who can trace their ancestry back to those founding days, to the newest immigrants who have just become naturalized as recently as weeks ago,\u201d Koshy said.<\/p>\n
Among others attending the event were Councilmember Frank Morano, Caroline Diamond Harrison, publisher of the Staten Island Advance and Alice B. Diamond, wife of the late Richard E. Diamond, former publisher of the Staten Island Advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Historic Richmond Town brought the nation\u2019s founding era to life on Independence Day with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-287705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}