SOUTHPORT — A new exhibition at the Pequot Library invites audiences to reflect on the long-running efforts in the United States to achieve the founding principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

Unfinished Revolution: 250 Years of Marking American Independence is now on view at the library through Sept. 26th. Tony Award-winning actor James Naughton recently led the first in a planned series of live performances at the exhibition’s opening reception.

Unfinished Revolution includes historic speeches, photographs, diaries, and souvenirs from both the centennial and bicentennial celebrations in the United States, illustrating how the milestones have been celebrated in Southport and the nation as a whole. These are juxtaposed with responses from people who have argued that the nation’s promise of equality has remained unfulfilled, including Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society and Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

Guided tours of the exhibition will take place on the second Saturday of each month at 1 p.m. For more information, click here.

Expanded coverage of Fairfield County cultural events is made possible with support from the Fairfield University Quick Center for the Arts