Friday, November 09, 2018, 03:00pm - 04:30pm

About The Event

Blue Star Memorial Dedication: Mount Airy

The Mountain View Gardeners Garden Club recently partnered with Dr. John L. Gravitte to sponsor Mount Airy’s first Blue Star Memorial Highway. A patriotic dedication ceremony is slated for Friday, November 9, ahead of a full schedule of local events for Veteran’s Day weekend.

The Blue Star became an icon in World War II for the blue star in the service flag which hung in the windows of homes, churches and businesses to honor the sons and daughters away at war. The Blue Star program began in 1944 with the planting of 8,000 dogwood trees by the New Jersey Council of Garden Clubs as a living memorial to veterans of World War II. The National Garden Clubs adopted the program in 1945 and began the Blue Star Highway system that not only represents thousands of miles across the Continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii, but also began recognizing all members-past, present, and future, of the United States Armed Forces. There are currently over 3,000 Blue Star Memorial Marker Highways nationwide. Paula Hartman, Chairman of North Carolina’s Blue Star Memorial Highway program, shared that Mount Airy’s dedication will mark the 100th Blue Star Memorial Highway Marker for our state.

Mount Airy native and co-sponsor of the marker, Dr. Gravitte recently stated, “The Blue Star program is a special tribute to all of the men and women who have and continue to serve our country. Every person in our community either knows or is related to a Veteran or active service member and we are honored to have this opportunity to show our support locally to all who have defended our freedoms and continue to do so. It’s been a privilege to partner with Mount Airy’s first Garden Club on this endeavor, the ladies of Mountain View Gardeners have worked diligently along with city and state officials to help achieve this commemorative event for Veterans Day weekend. We are so grateful to be a part of this incredible community!”

The public is invited to attend the ceremony being held at Mount Airy’s First Presbyterian Church at 326 S. Main Street at 3pm on Friday, November 9. The Blue Star Memorial Marker unveiling will immediately follow at Lowry Park at the intersection of Main Street and W. Pine Street, officially dedicating Highway 89 as a Blue Star Memorial Highway.

For more information contact Amanda Fretwell at 336-755-2755.

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