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Updated: 5:56 PM Jul 7, 2008
Frontier Culture Celebrates America's Birthday
Staunton, Va. The Frontier Culture Museum offered a traditional kind of festival Friday.
Posted: 10:47 PM Jul 4, 2008Reporter: Keith Jones Email Address: kjones@whsv.com |
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The Frontier Culture Museum offered a traditional kind of festival Friday.
More than 1,800 people came out to see how the early settlers honored the Fourth of July. Kids enjoyed activities that included seed spitting, cross cutting saw contests, and sack races as well as a dose of history from the re-enactors on hand.
Alex Tillen, Interpreter Supervisor, says, "They're very much, very proud that they beat the British, that they were an independent country. So reading the Declaration of Independence was incredibly important, the firing of guns, the militia coming out."
Officials say about 200 people visit the museum on average everyday.
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