{"id":403172,"date":"2026-09-18T03:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403172\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:10:11","slug":"florida-historic-capitol-museum-celebrates-constitution-day-honors-america-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403172\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Historic Capitol Museum celebrates Constitution Day, honors America 250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; The state capital carries on with more festivities commending the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Music, along with games and ice cream, was prepared to celebrate the Constitution Day Jubilation on Thursday at the Florida Historic Capitol Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event was hosted as part of the George Experience in honor of the greater America 250 celebration and the signing of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-center\">More Tallahassee news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rachel Basan Porter, one of the directors at the Historic Capitol, said this is an homage to the 4th of July Jubilation event hosted in Tampa during America\u2019s bicentennial year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe have little pocket Constitutions, so we hope that people have a serious take on that; it is Constitution Day,\u201d Porter said. \u201cSo we would like for people to embrace both that and this moment to celebrate 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence and to enjoy some music, and most importantly enjoy some ice cream.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Porter said that this is one of the last events in the experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To keep up with the latest news as it develops, follow WCTV on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WCTV.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wctvnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WCTVEyewitnessNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nextdoor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/09\/18\/florida-historic-capitol-museum-celebrates-constitution-day-honors-america-250\/mailto:news@wctv.tv?subject=Correction%20Needed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Write to us here<\/a>. Please include the article\u2019s headline in your message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Be the first to see all the biggest headlines by downloading the WCTV News app. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2024\/12\/18\/download-free-wctv-mobile-streaming-apps-today\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; The state capital carries on with more festivities commending the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary. Music,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[14901,1721,4033,160376,139850,160375,232,234,233,4494,4571],"class_list":["post-403172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-america250","tag-capital-city","tag-constitution","tag-constitution-day","tag-historic-capitol-museum","tag-rachel-basan-porter","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-u-s","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}