PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — It was a party 250 years in the making, as thousands returned to where it all began for a uniquely American day of celebrations.<\/p>\n
Watch the video above to see it all unfold.<\/p>\n
The Independence Visitor Center partnered up with Visit Philadelphia, Shop Rite, and others to provide a day full of family activities. This included the free distribution of thousands of cupcakes, which were used to form the shape of the American Flag.<\/p>\n
A performance from the Philly Fife and Drum company accompanied the festivities outside and inside.<\/p>\n
Free admission at the National Constitution Center allowed guests to feel transported into a Revolutionary encampment. Members of the Pennsylvania State Regiment of Rifles provided close-up lessons in weaponry, uniforms, and accessories.<\/p>\n
Historic Philadelphia, Inc. deployed their History Makers across Old City. They interacted with visitors through their first-person interpretations of American figures such as Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.<\/p>\n
They also presented a live reading of a portion of The Declaration of Independence behind Independence Hall at the John Barry Statue. In fact, such readings occur there throughout the summer on Tuesdays through Saturdays at 3:45pm.<\/p>\n
Watch the video above as Action News Community Journalists Matteo and Nick Iadonisi capture a snapshot of the city on the nation’s semiquincentennial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — It was a party 250 years in the making, as thousands returned to where it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[151352,7625,117905,30705,112,114,113,418,118909,160920,24696,9330,160921],"class_list":["post-400758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-4th-of-july","tag-america","tag-america-250","tag-birthday","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-history","tag-independence-day","tag-independence-mall","tag-party","tag-philadelphia","tag-re-enactors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}