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'We couldn't do this anywhere else:' An inside look at planning America's Freedom Festival in Provo
Eight days before the Fourth of July, America's Freedom Festival Associate Director Robyn Pulham is trying to learn how a new payment terminal works. She focuses on the instructions her assistant laid out for her — until the phone rings. Provo City is calling. She'd better answer. Pulham takes a swig of soda, grabs the phone, scribbles notes and hangs up. Back to the payment terminal, until something else steals her attention moments later. Such is life when making final preparations for one of the largest Fourth of July festivals in the country on America's 250th ...