Cries of Freedom
and the American Heritage Museum
We are proudly part of the Freedom Festival events at SCERA including Cries of Freedom, The American Heritage Museum, and The Colonial Heritage Festival. Make these events part of your 4th of July celebration!
Details
- Date: July 2 - 4
- Time: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Location: SCERA Center for the Arts 745 South State Street Orem, Utah
- Entry Info: Free
Event Sponsors
Cries of Freedom Musical
Each day at 1:00, 4:00 and 7:00 p.m.
Celebrating the 250th year of our nations founding, we are presenting the 18th year of Cries of Freedom, the Musical–pleasing crowds with stirring music, emotional acting, and energetic dancing! America is celebrating, and so should you! To paraphrase Martin Luther King, Jr, “Sometimes you have to go backward to go forward,” and so it is at this event. You will hear historic words applicable today. Tyranny is on the run and patriotic Americans are cheering!
Learn more at http://criesoffreedom.org/.
I Declare Independence
For America’s 250th anniversary we are doing a simulation of the 2nd Continental Congress where we got our Declaration of Independence. Participants become delegates to the 2nd Continental Congress and will be issued Delegate Credentials. They must make 10 Declarations of Freedom, watch a few videos and then recite the first part of the Declaration of Independence to a Delegate Official. Then they will be given a Declaration of Independence to sign and keep. It is a great way to remember the document and the concepts that have made America great!
American Heritage Museum
The Brent and Charlene Ashworth Collection
Open Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Room 101
This year the following new items will be displayed: 1. An original 1776 Philadelphia copy of “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine; 2. A newspaper covering the passage of Richard Henry Lee’s July 2 “Resolution that these United colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states”; 3. A rare Connecticut document signed on July 4, 1776, sending troops to “…succor the Armies of the United Colonies”; and 4. The first magazine printing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. There will also be items in sports, entertainment, science, space, art and other areas of U.S., Utah, and local history. Come and learn from the master of history himself.
