{"id":537170,"date":"2026-03-21T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537170\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:14:08","slug":"alabama-to-celebrate-united-states-250th-birthday-at-american-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537170\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama to celebrate United States\u2019 250th birthday at American Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">MONTEVALLO, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbrc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WBRC<\/a>) &#8211; Alabama\u2019s official celebration marking America\u2019s 250th birthday is coming to Montevallo\u2019s American Village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Sweet Home 250: Where Freedom Feels Like Home is set for July 3 and 4 and will features music, history, food, art and family-friendly experiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSweet Home 250 represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring Alabamians together in celebration of our nation\u2019s 250th anniversary,\u201d said Natalie Steed, Executive Officer at Alabama USA Semiquincentennial Commission. \u201cWe are proud to present an event that honors our history while inspiring future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Musical performances will feature Alabama artists including Blind Boys, Taylor Hicks, Myles Morgan and more while historians, authors and costumed interpreters give engaging perspective on the country\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There will also be chef demonstrations, food competitions, battle reenactments art exhibitions and six performances by Perondi\u2019s All-Star Stunt Dogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two-day festival will end with a firework show over Independence Hall on July 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Get news alerts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wbrc-fox6-news\/id449660326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wbrc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a> or subscribe to our email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBRC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTEVALLO, Ala. (WBRC) &#8211; Alabama\u2019s official celebration marking America\u2019s 250th birthday is coming to Montevallo\u2019s American Village. Sweet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[240782,240783,23,57362,240780,8099,32353,184912,42683,178031,17178,240784,42684,3,240781,21,19,22,20,25,24,42681],"class_list":["post-537170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-a250al","tag-alabama-usa-semiquincentennial-commission","tag-america","tag-america-250","tag-american-village","tag-celebration","tag-festival","tag-fireworks","tag-fox-6","tag-fox6","tag-independence-day","tag-july-4","tag-myfoxal","tag-news","tag-sweet-home-250","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wbrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}