About 100 candidates became citizens at Old Salem Museums & Gardens July 4th event this year! The ceremony, administered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, featured a keynote address by Dr. Max Gomez, one of TV’s most respected medical journalists, and a naturalized citizen himself. Other activities throughout the July 4th day in Salem included a performance of the 1783 Psalm of Joy by the Moramus Chorale and Chamber Orchestra, a reading of the Declaration of Independence, rifle and musket firing demonstrations, a fire engine drill, and a late-afternoon procession around Salem Square – the same walk that the residents of Salem took during the first July 4th celebration in 1783.
See the link below for more of the story and some moving photos.
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