Collingsworth Museum synchronizes ceremony to America’s 250th birthday

By Bev Odom on Wednesday, July 15, 2026
  • Only a small crowd gathers as Danny Sain, portraying an Early American Patriot Soldier on Collingsworth County Museum’s float, rings the former East Ward School bell at noon Saturday, July 4 in front of the Collingsworth County Courthouse following Wellington’s “Red, White and Boots” parade. Sain rang the bell 25 times, with each ring commemorating 10 years of America’s “let freedom ring” history. BEV ODOM/THE GREENBELT INTREPID
    Only a small crowd gathers as Danny Sain, portraying an Early American Patriot Soldier on Collingsworth County Museum’s float, rings the former East Ward School bell at noon Saturday, July 4 in front of the Collingsworth County Courthouse following Wellington’s “Red, White and Boots” parade. Sain rang the bell 25 times, with each ring commemorating 10 years of America’s “let freedom ring” history. BEV ODOM/THE GREENBELT INTREPID

    WELLINGTON – Joining communities across the nation in celebrating America’s Semiquincentennial, the Collingsworth County Museum participated in a synchronized bell-ringing ceremony at noon on Saturday, July 4, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

    Following Wellington’s annual “Red, White and Boots” parade, residents gathered around the Collingsworth…