The Walker County Chamber will host the Business After Hours and the Ridgeland High School Artists Reception – Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America celebrates the connection between Amercians and sports in our heritage. The event will be at the 6th Cavalry Museum on May 12, from 4-6 p.m.
Hometown Teams captures the stories that unfold on the neighborhood fields and courts, and the underdog heroics, larger-than-life legends, fierce rivalries and gut-wrenching defeats.
For more than 100 years, sports have reflected the trials and triumphs of the American experience and helped shape the nation’s character. Whether it is professional sports or those plated on the collegiate or scholastic level, amateur sports played by kids on the local playground, sports are everywhere in America.