{"id":18218,"date":"2026-02-16T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/?p=18218"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:29:14","slug":"video-about-gouverneur-morris-and-miss-dalleys-boarding-house-unveiling-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/video-about-gouverneur-morris-and-miss-dalleys-boarding-house-unveiling-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Video about Gouverneur Morris and Miss Dalley&#8217;s boarding house unveiling ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Constitution House Marker Unveiling Ceremony<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The unveiling ceremony for the &#8220;Constitution House&#8221; historic marker will be held on April 18 at 12:30 in Philadelphia. The ceremony will take place near the northeast corner of Market and Third Streets.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Gouverneur Morris &amp; Miss Dalley&#039;s Boarding House\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rqv1ZchZcRE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is a <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Rqv1ZchZcRE&amp;feature=youtu.be\">link<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>to a YouTube video about Gouverneur Morris, the &#8220;Penman of the Constitution&#8221;, who lived with Miss Dalley when he prepared the final draft of the Constitution, including the Preamble:<\/p>\n<p>Historian Richard Brookhiser will be the keynote speaker at the free event. We will have an honor guard and fife and drum corps. The City of Philadelphia will be shutting down marker street to accommodate the crowds. Copied below is one of six educational panels which will be on display in Philadelphia:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-9.52.46\u202fAM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-9.52.46\u202fAM-426x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-9.52.46\u202fAM-426x1024.png 426w, https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-9.52.46\u202fAM-125x300.png 125w, https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-9.52.46\u202fAM-768x1845.png 768w, https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-9.52.46\u202fAM-639x1536.png 639w, https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-9.52.46\u202fAM.png 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Melissa Dunphy, composer of &#8220;Remember the Ladies&#8221;, choral performance by PhilHarmonia. Here is a <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qYCzhbu8IQI\">link<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>to a a video about Abigail Adams&#8217;s famous letter, the inspiration for Dunphy&#8217;s composition:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Remember the Ladies&quot; Choral Performance - Melissa Dunphy (Performed by PhilHarmonia)\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qYCzhbu8IQI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitution House Marker Unveiling Ceremony The unveiling ceremony for the &#8220;Constitution House&#8221; historic marker will be held on April 18&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18218"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18230,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18218\/revisions\/18230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}