Two more weekends of events to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary are on tap this month. Friday, July 17 The musical “Crickets on a Hill,” which opened July 2 continues this weekend. Shows will be held Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, July 19, at 3 p.m. All performances will be in the Harry M. Ward Auditorium at Mathews High School. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students, available online at courthouseplayers.org/crickets-2026 and at the door. Sunday, July 19 Abingdon Episcopal Church, 4645 George Washington Memorial Highway, White Marsh, will have a reading of the Declaration of Independence on Sunday, July 19. Abingdon Episcopal Church’s rector, the Rev. Sven vanBaars, said that John Page of Rosewell, Virginia statesman and Abingdon member, wrote a letter on July 20, 1776 to his close friend and college classmate. In this, Page praised Jefferson’s newly drafted Declaration and pledged to publish it in Gloucester and surrounding communities. The S...