Jacksonville Historical Society will celebrate the city’s bicentennial in mid-June.
A free street fest will be in downtown Jacksonville, beginning at James Weldon Johnson Park and finishing at Riverfront Park.
Along Laura Street from noon until 3:00 pm on June 11, James Weldon Johnson Park will feature vendors, exhibits, food trucks, and booths. Historic reenactors from The Imposters,
will portray events that occurred in early Jacksonville, and Isaiah Hart will guide Historic Downtown Tours at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 2:00 pm.
Jacksonville Children’s Chorus, LPT Afro-Cubano Salsa Band and John Lumpkin Band will perform. Jacksonville Art Community will have its members painting scenes at eight locations along the street.
From noon until 4:00 pm, an art exhibit called “My Jacksonville,” a children’s art installation, will be showing partly in front of the New Jacksonville Arts Center 331 Ashley Street and at the Jacksonville Public Library, 303 N. Laura Street.
A live mural called “Impower People with Disabilities” will be created in front of the library and at the Museum of Contemporary Art beginning at 1:00 pm. At 2:00 pm, Wheelchair Art will be at 303 N. Laura Street.
The opening ceremony will be held at 3:00 pm, and afterwards a parade will march from James Weldon Johnson Park to Riverfront Plaza.
At 5:00 pm, bands The Honey Hounds, Love and Theft Let’s Ride Brass Band, and Flipturn will play. Fireworks are scheduled for 10:15 pm.
Merchandise sporting the Jacksonville bicentennial graphic design is available online.
