Cue patriotic music. Gather hot dogs and all available mustard. Set coordinates for local playground. It is one of my favorite holidays of the year and it is here. For a full description of today’s events read last Friday’s post, but here’s the short version.

Today at the Sterling Community Center playground: public reading of the Declaration of Independence. Eleven a.m., rain or shine, free and open to the public. Family friendly, of course. This is the first of what I hope to be many such occurrences in my adopted hometown of Sterling, Virginia.

Now rock on, fellow revelers!