Little Rock’s Historic Arkansas Museum celebrates America’s 250th anniversary, 1836-style

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An armed militia was seen storming the grounds of the Historic Arkansas Museum on Saturday afternoon, wooden guns held high as they declared themselves free from British rule. It might have looked like a scene from 1776, but it was actually a reenactment of how people in 1836 might have celebrated Independence Day and Arkansas' admission as the 25th state -- by staging a reenactment of their own.