City holds Fourth in the Park

  • 2021-06-20
Marietta will be “pulling out all the stops” for this year’s Fourth in the Park, a celebration of American’s independence.

Festivities will begin with the Marietta Freedom parade beginning at 10:00 am. Over a hundred entries with more than two thousand participants will be marching before thirty thousand or more spectators. The Float Competition will award prizes with criteria such as appearance, theme, color, design, originality and costumes.

Local businesses, bands, National Guard, civic organizations, scouts and beauty queens in parades such as this often get banner printing done before the event so they have printed identification along the route.

The 1.5 mile route will begin at the Baptist Church on Roswell, head west turning north on East Park Square. It will go through Marietta Square, on down Cherokee Street and end at North Marietta Parkway.

From 10:00 am until 9:00 pm a festival will be in progress in Marietta Square with a Kids’ Zone, arts and crafts vendors, games, and festival food. Scott Thompson will begin the free concerts at noon. The National Bell Ringing Ceremony will take place at 2:00 pm followed by Atlanta Concert Band at 2:30 pm. A pre-firework concert will run from 8:00 pm until 9:30 pm.

At dusk (sometime around 9:30 pm) fireworks will be launched from the Marietta First United Methodist Church parking lot. They will be accompanied by patriotic music.