Celebrate Constitution Day

Please join the Mary Bush Chapter of the Children of the American Revolution and First Selectman, Peter Tesei, for a commemoration of Constitution Week. Constitution Week is an American observance to commemorate the adoption of the United States Constitution. The observance runs annually from Sept. 17 to 23. It was officially enacted on August 2, 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower from a congressional resolution petitioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, but it was George W. Bush who officially declared the inception of Constitution Week in September 2002. The purpose of the observance week is to promote study and education about the constitution which was originally adopted by the American Congress of the Confederation on Sept. 17, 1787.