{"id":466,"date":"2013-11-26T03:17:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T03:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2025-07-20T03:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:29:54","slug":"star-spangled-fourth-of-july-fort-mackinac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Star Spangled Fourth of July &#8211; Fort Mackinac  &#8211; July 4, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MackinacStateHistoricParks\/photos\/a.10151893582960402.874375.98006400401\/10151893585355402\/?type=3&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-prn2%2Fv%2Ft1.0-9%2F563285_10151893585355402_137897981_n.jpg%3Foh%3Dd5f5cef2527877c83bf0ca0f73adae67%26oe%3D56270E92&amp;size=960%2C638&amp;fbid=10151893585355402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mackinacparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_3599-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The historic island fort is decked out in patriotic finery with banners, flags and bunting. It is an 1880\u2019s Independence Day, with 38-gun salutes honoring the states of the period and children\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p>Guests join the party and participate in games on the fort parade ground. Don\u2019t miss out on this all 1880s Independence Day as we have catch and baseball available on the parade ground to go along with foot races and sack races, a reading of the Declaration of Independence, the raising of the colors, the national salute (38 rifle blasts for the 38 states of the 1880s!), a cannon salute, and much more!<\/p>\n<p>Games will be available on the parade ground beginning at 1:30 p.m. Special programming will take place at 2:00 p.m. The Tea Room Restaurant, operated by Grand Hotel, is open all day serving snacks, sweets, and beverages, and will have full lunch service from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All special programming is included with regular admission to Fort Mackinac. (always July 4)<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mackinacparks.com\/event\/a-star-spangled-fourth-of-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit Mackinac Island State Park Website &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&lt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The historic island fort is decked out in patriotic finery with banners, flags and bunting. It is an 1880\u2019s Independence Day, with 38-gun salutes honoring the states of the period and children\u2019s games.\nGuests join the party and participate in games on the fort parade ground. Don\u2019t miss out on this all 1880s Independence Day as [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,27,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}