Here is a video sampling of the Fourth of July 2013 in Greater Morristown. You can toggle among the videos by clicking the bottom of the video player:
What you will see:
Eric Olsen of the National Park Service enlisting the crowd’s help for a volley of musket fire on the Morristown Green. (Conserving on ammo?)
Fireworks finale at Lewis Morris Park, sponsored by the town of Morristown.
Griffin Karisa, a 14-year-old Morristown resident who is a native of Kenya, looks forward to U.S. citizenship. When his stepdad married his mom, they moved here, and Griffin is adjusting to life in New Jersey.
Park Ranger Tom Winslow, who delivered another crowd-pleasing recitation of the Declaration of Independence, reflects on what it meant to do so for the first time on the Morristown Green, where George Washington once held sway.
The Morris Music Men serenade Leslie Bensley, Morris County’s tourism director and organizer of the “Revolutionary Times” events.
