BRIEFING; Ringing In the Fourth
By ROBIN TONER AND WARREN WEAVER JR.
Published: July 4, 1986
Washingtonians awaiting the national fireworks display over the Mall
tonight can sample a variety of Independence Day observances. The
National Archives will enliven Constitution Avenue at 10 A.M. with music
by the Third U.S. Infantry Fife and Drum Corps, a cannon and musket fire
demonstration by three reconstituted Revolutionary War regiments in uni-form
and a dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence by Rob Coles,
a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson.
At noon the Washington Ringing Society will try to ring a full peal on
the 10 bells of the Washington Cathedral, an exercise in change-ringing
that, if successful, could provide tintinnabulation for more than three
hours.
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