GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – As America looks to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday this July, community members in Green Bay are marking the occasion by creating a special quilt.
In a project named “We the People: A Community Quilt for 250 Years,” 250 residents throughout the Green Bay area are being invited to design a quilt block.
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All 250 individual quilt blocks will then be sewn together into one large piece that represents Green Bay while also honoring and celebrating the past and future of the United States.
Several of the event planners and coordinators in the city came together at City Hall and we talked about what are the ways that the City of Green Bay can celebrate America’s 250th and our organization, Downtown Green Bay, Inc., decided we would like to create a piece of art or like a living community piece that will really encapsulate the celebration this year of the 250th, but also really commemorate the past and look forward to the future.
Jenny Vandenlangenberg, Downtown Green Bay Director of First Impressions
The finished quilt is expected to be unveiled at Leicht Memorial Park during the 4th of July celebrations.
