Cooling off for the Fourth

Earlier in the week other Annapolis venues celebrated the Fourth of July with fireworks and parades. Annapolis Senior Activity Center members celebrated in a different way, cooling off with vanilla ice cream, strawberries and blueberries and heating up with music by Trish and Frank Curreri of Vintage Entertainment.

About 75 seniors attended the center’s Fourth of July ice cream social on July 5. Many of them wore red, white and blue.

The Curreris traded off between lazy, summertime songs like “Under the Boardwalk” and “Margaritaville,” romantic songs like “It’s So Easy,” and “What I Like About You,” and songs about love of one’s home like “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and “America, the Beautiful.”

Frank interspersed some commentary along with the songs, noting that this country has existed for 241 years and is a “melting pot.” He also pointed out that freedom is not free, and that there’s a cost for freedom. He talked about heroes and defined them as “ordinary people who do extraordinary things.”