A community brass quintet plays the Star Spangled Banner prior to the Freeman/Tabor amateur baseball game the night of Sunday, July 5, that was part of Freeman's Independence Day celebration.

Salem Reformed Church pastor reminds those gathered that biblical passages were embraced by colonists even before the Revolutionary War

Music, scripture readings a big part of July 5 service at Freeman Community Center

This photo is included in a gallery of images taken by Jeremy Waltner at the 2026 Rames-Bender Post 152 Fourth of July Parade.

Bryce Sattler messaged me on Facebook following last year’s Fourth of July parade and told me I was lucky to be carrying a camera, or he would have targeted me with a water balloon from the Menno Mad Frogs' signature float, which always features a nonstop assault on parade-goers.

Fireworks are pictured on the night of Sunday, July 5 from the vantage point of the Freeman Prairie Arboretum; the buildings in the foreground are part of the campus of Heritage Hall Museum & Archives.

The Freeman Blacksox bus rumbles down Fifth Street in Menno late Saturday morning, July 4 for the Rames-Bender Post 152 of the American Legion Independence Day parade.

The sun rises on a historic Saturday morning — July 4, 2026.

This banner recognizing Jerome Hoff's military service is one of 15 that now hang on Menno's Fifth Street, put up in time for Saturday's Fourth of July parade.

This was the scene at the Freeman High School parking lot just after 10 p.m. Wednesday night, July 1, as a group of high school boys put on a fireworks show.