Outside City Hall on the morning of July 14, elected officials along with representatives from the Museum of Worcester took turns reading passages from the Declaration of Independence at the site where printer and patriot Isaiah Thomas publicly proclaimed the document 250 years earlier.
But the marker commemorating Worcester’s place in that history was so difficult to locate that Councilor Morris Bergman said he had to help others find it beneath their feet.
For Bergman, the nearly hidden plaque has become a symbol of a larger problem: a city with history rivaling Boston’s, but far less willingness to put that history on display.
“We continue not to celebrate it,” Bergman said during last week’s City Council meeting. “It should be something we have to avoid seeing instead of having to find.”…