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Meadowcroft to host Independence Day activities

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The Senator John Heinz History Center museum system, including Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village near Avella, will honor the Fourth of July with patriotic activities throughout its three locations.

Meadowcroft will host an Independence Day Celebration from noon to 5 p.m. July 4.

Visitors are invited to don their red, white and blue for an all-American day of fun, including popular 19th-century family games like races, an egg toss and a pie-eating contest. There will be a reading of the Declaration of Independence inside Fairview Church in the 19th Century Meadowcroft Historic Village.

Visitors can also watch a blacksmith forge red-hot iron, step inside a wigwam, and try their hand at the atlatl, a prehistoric spear-thrower. Tours of the Meadowcroft Rockshelter, a National Historic Landmark, and the oldest site of human habitation in North America, will be available throughout the day.

For more information, visit www.heinzhistorycenter.org/meadowcroft.

Fort Pitt Museum

The Fort Pitt Museum in historic Point State Park festivities begin at 11 a.m. July 4.

Visitors can gather in the Fort Pitt Block House yard to help lower a British ensign and raise a 36-foot, 13-star American flag with help from museum staff and local scouts. The American flag is the same size and pattern as the flag that originally flew over Fort Pitt more than 200 years ago. The patriotic ceremony will conclude with the singing of the national anthem by members of the Yinzer Singers.

From 1 to 4 p.m., the museum will present free living history demonstrations in Point State Park. Visitors can learn about Fort Pitt and Western Pennsylvania’s critical role in the American Revolution from costumed reenactors and watch 18th century rifle and musket demonstrations.

For more information, visit www.heinzhistorycenter.org/fort-pitt.

Heinz History Center

The Smithsonian-affiliated Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh will host a flag ceremony at noon on July 4.

Visitors are invited to join local veterans in the History Center’s Great Hall to help unfurl a 36-foot American flag. Led by museum staff, the ceremony will include singing of the National Anthem and a moment of silence for those who have served.

The flag ceremony is included with regular museum admission. For more information, visit www.heinzhistorycenter.org/america-101.

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