250 years ago a group of fishermen, hunters and farmers created a secret weapon to defeat the British. Some of the volunteers would be unarmed musicians marching into the center of battle playing “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” The worse the battle got the happier they would play. The good cheer from the music created high morale and inspired the good deeds of fighting courageously. Out gunned, out numbered an all volunteer force fighting with hunting weapons and farm tools regularly defeated a vastly superior enemy by sharing the good cheer of “The American Spirit.”
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July 4, 2025 President Trump declares the beginning of a year long “Great American State Fair,” for our 250th Birthday.
Within walking distance of your neighborhood, or as close to you as possible this site will let you CREATE or FIND any type of 250th birthday celebration, carnival booth, treasure or adventure and share good cheer and good deeds.
The British called the continental army “scurvy dog pirates.” Philadelphia Pennsylvania had a notorious PIRATE DIVE BAR called the “Tun Tavern.”
Out gunned, out manned, in small ships eating rotten food, suffering heavy losses, without these scurvy dog pirates, now called the marines, we may have never won our battle for freedom against the British. The musicians that marched into battle playing “Yankee Doodle Dandy” became our countries first rock stars.
George Washington commanded an all volunteer army to fight for freedom. A public ledger kept track of the good deeds of every person. We do the same and keep score with a pirate coin called a “Dubloon.” To remind us to always start with good cheer, and “Get Loony” we call these coins “Loonies.”
Carnival booths are where good cheer and good deeds are found at our “Great American State Fair.” You can “Get Loony” at a carnival booth by volunteering, celebrating, entertaining, sharing an adventure or going on treasure hunts.
The Marines have a bulldog mascot named Chesty and since only scurvy dogs are allowed in the pirate dive bar, train a dog and send them in. You may see other types of dogs such as carnival barkers trying to grab your booty or working dogs keeping you safe. You could see Mermaids at the Petting Zoo serving food and drink. Sharks can be found all around and if a bribed judge finds you innocent, you walk the plank or go down the escalator, your choice.
A “Knotty Nauti Photo Contest” will test your freedom of speech and good cheer while teaching you basic sailing knots. Tell everyone you post Knotty Nauti pictures. “Would they like to see them?” The Karaoke Challenge Game will challenge you to be a rock star of sea shanties, patriotic songs and dancing pirate jigs. Treasure maps are as small as QR codes. Pirate trivia will test your sea skills and Pirate School will teach you how to become part of military styled precision boat parades. You will know your start time, safety procedures, position in a squad, squad in a group and group in a parade. Without Pirate School you don’t have a boat parade, you have a stampede. On board each boat is their own carnival booth where they can live stream by any method and be easily connected to by anyone. Each boat competes to have 10 seconds of good cheer featured as a comedy bumper, during the main broadcast of the TV series called “Special Heroes.”
Special Heroes are patriotic pirates born with the special powers of Down syndrome, autism, spina bifida or who have other special powers. Our patriotic mission is to turn Special Heroes into Super Heroes!
B roll can be submitted from any carnival booth or boat in a parade to create comedy bumpers for the TV series called “Special Heroes.” Instead of a house or garden being fixed up, in each episode a gang of scurvy dog pirates turns a Special Hero into a Super Hero by solving quality of life issues for employment, education, housing and the most important thing, the pursuit of happiness.
This is a volunteer site for a 501 C 3 nonprofit called the “Atlanta Volunteers.” The continental army was a volunteer army. Why did they volunteer?