DAR to host award-winning Independence Day celebration

The local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter will host its award-winning 25th annual Independence Day celebration on Thursday, July 4.

As it’s done in years past, the Edenton Tea Party Chapter of DAR will host a reading of the Declaration of Independence at the Joseph Hewes Monument on the green of the Historic Chowan County Courthouse. The event will also feature a posting of the colors and a musical salute, complete with costumed reenactors.

The celebration will get underway starting at 10 a.m. with retired Navy Petty Officer Rae Varian Ohlert reading the Declaration of Independence. Martha Whitted Smith, historian for the Edenton Tea Party chapter of DAR, will also give a brief biographical sketch of Hewes, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

The Edenton Tea Party Chapter of DAR’s Independence Day ceremony has been nationally recognized by the national DAR organization for the past two years. This year, the Tea Party Chapter received a highly unusual third recognition from the national DAR for the event.