Speak Up: Constitution’s importance reinforced at Georgetown ceremony

Constitution Day, the annual commemoration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia on Sept. 17, 1787, was celebrated in a Georgetown Town Hall ceremony.

• I am so pleased to see at least one city within the state recognize Constitution Day. It is certainly unfortunate that the city of Dover, where the Constitution was first ratified in the whole of the United States, doesn’t recognize this day, formally, every year, and that the state also seems to be oblivious to our role in the creation of this nation. — Ellen Hart Richardson