Bell Ringing Planned for Cameron County September 17th

National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Cameron County Chamber of

Commerce will observe Constiution Week Thursday September 17.

Each year DAR celebrates the United States Constitution Week. This year the local chapter selected the Cameron County Chamber of Commerce & Artisan Center to host the event in front of the bell painted by artist Sarah Daley in conjunction with America 250 PA.

The 30 minute public event on Thursday will begin at 3:45pm. It will include music, ringing bells and the reading of the preamble to the Constitution. Remarks will be made by Julie Pyle Childs, Regent of the Penn-Elk Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The public is encouraged to bring any type of bill to ring at 4:00pm.

Bells Across America Agenda

National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in partnership with the

Cameron County Chamber of Commerce and Artisan Center

Thursday September 17, 2026

Set-Up 3:30 pm

(Music Stand as podium, display items, chair and music stand for Nancy Couchman who will play the dulcimer.)

3:45 pm Community invited to gather at the PA250 Liberty Bell

3:50 pm Welcome –

Tina Johns Solak, Cameron County Chamber of Commerce

3:51 pm Remarks – (7 minutes)

Julie Pyle Childs, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution,

Penn-Elk Chapter, Regent.

3:58 pm: Sing “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” followed by Ringing of the Bells

My country, 'tis of thee,

Sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing:

Land where my fathers died,

Land of the pilgrims' pride,

From every mountainside

Let freedom ring!

4:00 pm: Ring Bells for 1 minute

4:01 pm: JPC will introduce a community member who will read the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, followed by all sing the chorus to “God Bless America”.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

God bless America, land that I love.

Stand beside her and guide her

Through the night with the light from above.

From the mountains to the prairies,

To the oceans white with foam,

God bless America, my home sweet home,

God bless America, my home sweet home.

Final remarks and conclude by 4:15 pm., Load out complete by 4:30pm.

The community is invited to join members of the Cameron County Chamber of Commerce and the Penn-Elk Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution on Thursday September 17th at the Cameron County Artisan Center in celebration of Constitution Week with a bell ringing ceremony. We will gather at 3:45 pm near the PA250 Cameron County Liberty Bell, crafted by local artist, Sarah Jane Daley to celebrate the 239th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.

The community is encouraged to bring a bell of their own and join the festivities.

Bells Across America is an annual celebration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Participants gather across the country to ring bells, much as the church bells of Philadelphia rang out when the U.S. Constitution was first signed at 4 pm on September 17, 1787.