BOSTON (AP) - Boston is marking Independence Day with a traditional procession, speeches, a Boston Pops concert and fireworks.
Festivities begin Thursday morning at City Hall with a brief speaking program. Marchers will then set off for the Old Granary Burial Ground where Samuel Adams, John Hancock and other prominent colonial leaders are buried.
They’ll also make a stop at the Old State House, where the Declaration of Independence will be read out from a balcony by a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company - just as it was in 1776.
The procession ends at Faneuil Hall where Boston University Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore will deliver a speech in a tradition dating to 1773.
The Boston Pops orchestra performs at night with fireworks over the Charles River as a backdrop.
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