Happy Birthday Mr. President

Wreath Laying Ceremony

in Honor of

John Adams Birthday

The annual wreath-laying ceremony commemorating the second president’s 275th birthday was held at the United First Parish Church in Quincy.

The annual event is part of President Lyndon B. Johnson declaration that every deceased president’s birthday would be recognized with a wreath on his tomb.

The wreath, ordered by the White House, was made by Clifford Flowers’ in Quincy Center, and was laid on Adams’ tomb by Navy officers, Delahunt, Koch, John Adams, Galvin and Arthur Ducharme, the church’s visitors program director.

On behalf of the President of the United States, the Presidential Wreath sent by the White House was placed upon the granite sarcophagus of President John Adams.

 A similar Presidential Wreath-laying ceremony occurred on

 July 11, the 242nd birthday of President John Quincy Adams.

The

tradition of sending flowers/wreathsto mark the birthdays of deceased former presidents was begun in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson.

United First Parish Church is also known as The Church of the Presidents because a tomb beneath the church contains the remains of our second president John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams; and their son, our sixth president John Quincy Adams and his wife Louisa Catherine Adams.

 An impressive display of Patriotism !