Freedom Festival Events at SCERA

July 3 , daily

Freedom Festival Events at SCERA

You will find a whole array of 4th of July events at SCERA Park (Colonial Heritage Festival) and SCERA Center for the Arts (Cries of Freedom and The American Heritage Museum). Make SCERA Park and SCERA Center for the Arts a big part of your 4th of July CELEBRATION! July 3, 4 and 5.

Cries of Freedom

Presenting the 17th year of Cries of Freedom, the Musical–pleasing crowds with stirring music, emotional acting, and energetic dancing! America is celebrating, and so should you! To paraphrase Martin Luther King, Jr, “Sometimes you have to go backward to go forward,” and so it is at this event. You will hear historic words applicable today. Tyranny is on the run and patriotic Americans are cheering!

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American Heritage Museum

This year the following new items will be displayed: 1. An original 1776 Philadelphia copy of “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine; 2. A newspaper covering the passage of Richard Henry Lee’s July 2 “Resolution that these United colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states”; 3. A rare Connecticut document signed on July 4, 1776, sending troops to “…succor the Armies of the United Colonies”; and 4. The first magazine printing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. There will also be items in sports, entertainment, science, space, art and other areas of U.S., Utah, and local history. Come and learn from the master of history himself.

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Colonial Fest

Travel back in time to the colonial period and the American Revolution with the sights, smells, and experiences of a colonial village as it would have been in 1776.

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