The Kiwanis Club of Oceanside and the Oceanside Library celebrated the 18th annual Summer gazebo readings at Schoolhouse Green, with an Independence Day free barbecue and patriotic readings on July 1. The event was ripe with delicious barbecue food, followed by volunteer readings.
Audience members, including families and friends, gathered with their lawn chairs to enjoy a range of readings from American history.
Volunteers from the crowd read excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, famous speeches, comedic writings, and letters from notable figures such as JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Mark Twain, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Will Rogers.