What’s a very popular read that you won’t find on the New York Times Best Seller list?

The U.S. Constitution, according to members of the LWVSKC North King County League.

Impressed by the document’s popularity at a gathering at Shoreline in late January, League members are sponsoring a public reading of the U.S. Constitution on Sunday, May 3, in the Lake Forest Park Town Center.

League Unit coordinator Phillippa Kassover said she and fellow volunteers were pleasantly surprised by how many event-goers scooped up the pocket-sized constitutions they were handing out at their table at the Activists Assembly at Shorewood High School.

“We heard comments from those who stopped by that it was literally decades since they had read it in school,” Kassover said. “People said they wanted to remind themselves of the document that forms the bedrock of our society and legal system – especially now when it is so much in the news.”

She added, “We quickly ran out of all of our copies.”

Joined by fellow League member Jenny Muilenberg, senior director of the Health Sciences Library at the University of Washington, and her husband, Matt Muilenberg, a Lake Forest Park city council member, Kassover and others have secured a number of participants for the public reading, including Mayor Tom French and other local elected officials.

“We are reaching out to local schools, scout troops, the Rotary Club and all our communities in North King County,” said Kassover. 

“Everyone is welcome to join us and if you would like to be a reader, please sign up at www.LFPreads.com.”