Our Festivals of Light

The two festivals of light we celebrate are during the season of Christmas and the Fourth of July, the one featuring more or less stationary lights and the other lights and colors bursting high and overlaid with thunderous noise. Our two prominent holidays are accompanied and associated with music - carols and hymns of peaceful celebration for one and the 1812 Overture in sincere patriotic joy for the other. We are a people who come together on these occasions. On these days we are one: Americans brought together by light and sound, reverence and pride.