BESSEMER - While the Fourth of July weekend has become filled with cookouts and fireworks, a small crowd gathered in downtown Bessemer Sunday to recite the Declaration of Independence and mark the historical context of the holiday.
After talking briefly about the history of the document; Connie Pricco, Dan Cvengros, Richard Steiger and John Frello took turns reciting the declaration's text. The group read several parts in unison, including the famous "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,...