{"id":220676,"date":"2026-06-16T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220676\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:23:13","slug":"refurbished-bicentennial-eagle-reinstalled-at-berks-heritage-center-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220676\/","title":{"rendered":"Refurbished Bicentennial Eagle reinstalled at Berks Heritage Center [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly refurbished Bicentennial Eagle sculpture was reinstalled at the Berks County Heritage Center on Tuesday ahead of the country\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture was originally cast and assembled by students in 1976 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Mike Miller collaborated with students at the Reading Muhlenberg Career &amp; Technology Center and the county parks and recreation department to repaint and reinstall the sculpture in the courtyard next to the barn with a new public art mural.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Guests watch as the Bicentennial Eagle sculpture created in 1976...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/REG-L-BicentennialEagleUnveiled786.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Guests watch as the Bicentennial Eagle sculpture created in 1976 is unveiled and reinstalled at the Berks County Heritage Center on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Berks County Parks Director Brendan Lederer speaks during a ceremony...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/REG-L-BicentennialEagleUnveiled784.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/REG-L-BicentennialEagleUnveiled784.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Berks County Parks Director Brendan Lederer speaks during a ceremony unveiling the refurbished Bicentennial Eagle sculpture at the Berks County Heritage Center on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>Guests watch as the Bicentennial Eagle sculpture created in 1976 is unveiled and reinstalled at the Berks County Heritage Center on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The newly refurbished Bicentennial Eagle sculpture was reinstalled at the Berks County Heritage Center on Tuesday ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[62733,349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-220676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-america-250-pa","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}