Independence Bells of Philadelphia (Landmarks)

Independence Bells of Philadelphia (Landmarks)

"The bells rung all day, and almost all night..." John Adams wrote this timeless observation when the Declaration of Independence was signed and publicly proclaimed in early July of 1776 to a jubilant crowd in Philadelphia. This is the story of those bells - a search to discover which bells did indeed ring, or are believed to have rung, when America was born. It is the story of the most famous bell in the world, the Liberty Bell, and the other historic bells of Philadelphia, during the era of the American Revolution. Author Thomas Kaufmann traces the joyous history of sound and instrument as the nation is forged among uplifting tolls of Philadelphia's historic independence bells. Thomas Kaufmann is an author, architectural historian, preservationist and artist who studied architecture at Auburn University and the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art in New York City, where he serves as a Fellow Emeritus. He and his wife, Ann Marie, and son, Tommy, live in a 1926 Craftsman bungalow in the historic Capitol Heights neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama.