Constitutional scholar Bill Norton is the education director of Liberty Village — a 30-acre site near Hurricane, Utah, where the team is building more than twenty replicas of historic American buildings. In this segment from The Jenny Beth Show, Norton walks Jenny Beth Martin through what's already there and what's coming: an eighteenth-century print shop, the Green Dragon Tavern where the Sons of Liberty met, a 13 Colonies plaza, and eventually full-size replicas of Independence Hall, Mount Vernon, Monticello, and St. John's Church.
He explains how a visit to Alabama's American Village inspired the project, why the West needed its own founding-era destination, and how Benjamin Franklin's home will open into a kids' discovery center where children experiment with the same things Franklin did — learning liberty and history by living it.
This is a preview of the show's founding-principles training series, which begins airing Monday, July 6.
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00:00 — A 30-Acre Founding-Era Village in Utah
00:55 — The Green Dragon Tavern and the Sons of Liberty
01:25 — The Inspiration: American Village
02:05 — Becoming the Education Director
05:20 — Benjamin Franklin's Home, Reimagined for Kids
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