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The Spirit of America Festival is an outdoor Fourth of July celebration typically held over a period of two days at Point Mallard Park in Decatur, Alabama. Featuring a variety of traditional summer activities, the event is organized and staged by an all-volunteer board.
The major highlights of the festival are presentations of two special awards given to notable citizens: the Audie Murphy Patriotism Award and the Barrett C. Shelton Freedom Award, the latter named after the locally-revered Decatur Daily publisher whose family still controls the newspaper, as well as one of North Alabama's largest aerial fireworks displays.
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