Come out and celebrate America’s independence as the City of Marietta hosts the 2011 Fourth in the Park celebration beginning on Monday, July 4, 2011 at 10am. The Independence Day celebration begins with the Marietta Freedom Parade that starts at Roswell Street Baptist Church and ends at North Marietta Parkway (click here for a parade map – PDF). After the parade there will be free live concerts and entertainment, museum tours, food, arts and crafts, carnival games, and of course fireworks.
2011 Schedule:
10am – Marietta Freedom Parade
Noon – Scott Thompson (country) in Concert
2pm – National Bell Ringing
2:15pm – Parade Awards Ceremony
8pm – Thompson Square (country) in Concert
Dark – Fireworks
Rain date:
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The parade spans a 1.5 mile route beginning at Roswell Street Baptist Church and heads west on Roswell St, then north on East Park Square through Marietta Square, then down Cherokee Street and finishing at North Marietta Parkway. The parade features more than two thousand participants in more than one hundred entries, and there will be an estimated thirty thousand people in attendance. Watch as local businesses, civic organizations, beauty queens, bands, scouts, National Guard, and numerous floats participate and compete for prizes based on design, color, theme, appearance, originality, and riders and costumes.
The Arts and Crafts show features more than eighty different vendors showcasing a wide variety of products. The vendors will be open from 10am to 9pm on July 4th, 2011.
Food will be available from a variety of concessions beginning at 10am. Marietta Square restaurants will also be open for business.
Carnival games are available throughout the park at Marietta Square from 10am-9pm; tickets for games available at booths located throughout the park.
Fireworks light up the sky and patriotic music fills the air at dark.
For more information, please call the Marietta Parks and Recreation department at (770) 794-5601.
Be sure to save room for dessert which includes almond crescents, baklava, chocolate baklava, galatoboureko, kourabiethes, koulourakia, rizogalo, karithopita, diples, floyeres, kataifi, baklava sundae and greek cream puffs. Can’t make up your mind, then try the dessert sampler which includes 8 festival favorites.
Church tours are available throughout the weekend and last approximately 10 minutes. The Byzantine style sanctuary and church tour showcases the rich color, distinctive iconography and beauty of the interior of the Orthodox church.
