CHRIS PEDOTA/Staff photographer Larry Stephan of Oakland, center, on the porch of the Ringwood manor reading the Declaration of Independence to visitors who braved the rain Friday. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to celebrate the Fourth of July in the pouring rain, they huddle under trees at the Ringwood Manor, pop up umbrellas and make the best of a soggy situation with a spirited reading of the Declaration of Independence. On a Fourth of July that offered more soak than sizzle, hundreds gathered for the traditional reading of our nation’s founding creed,...