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Located in the capital city of Montgomery, Alabama, ASF is the sixth largest Shakespeare Festival in the world. Annually ASF attracts more than 300,000 visitors from all 50 states and over 60 countries.rnrnIf you are visiting from across the State or from around the World you will find the area contains a wealth of historical and cultural activities.rn

The American Village is a nationally pioneering civic education center.
Our mission is to strengthen and renew the foundations of American liberty
and self-government through citizenship education. We invite you to come
back often, and we invite you to join us in this important work. Truly we are
all entrusted with the preservation of that sacred fire of liberty

Everyday at The American Village children take on the role of George
Washington, sit on an exact replica of the “Rising Sun Chair,” and preside at the Constitutional Convention. At the end of the Convention, Benjamin Franklin told fellow delegates he had often gazed at the half sun carved on the back of Washington’s chair and wondered whether it was rising or setting. After a long and difficult convention he was happy, he said, to affirm it was indeed a rising sun. Today our task is to help prepare a new generation of citizens who can by their knowledge, words, and deeds, ensure that the
sun continues to rise for the future of our great Nation and for liberty and self-government which are its hallmarks.