Upcoming Declaration Readings A Uniquely Leelanau Tradition
By Art Bukowski | June 24, 2026
Thomas “Rink” Smith felt something stir within himself late in the night of July 3, 2014.
Smith was reading a copy of the Declaration of Independence as printed in the Leelanau Enterprise, and he was moved by the document in way that surprised him. It was about 11 p.m., but he felt the need for action.
“I hadn’t read it for years and years, and it just blew me away,” the Omena resident tells The Ticker. “I can’t cite any particular paragraph or phrase, but it was the gravity, the wonderful high level of English language, and the profound concepts it conveyed and how they’re still effective.”
Smith decided then …
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