The Greenbelt Legacy 80th Anniversary celebration gets off to a joyful start on Sunday, June 4 at 3 p.m. with a family-friendly concert at the Greenbelt Community Center Artful Afternoon, featuring The Chromatics and the Greenbelt Elementary School (GES) Chorus.
For the young singers from GES, the concert is a symbolic homecoming to the beautiful historic building that housed Greenbelt’s original school. The chorus, under the direction of Lee Gibbs, will open the concert with a medley of three songs from the upcoming summer camp show, The Cookie Caper. The camp show highlights early events in Greenbelt history from a child’s perspective, including the surprise visit of Eleanor Roosevelt to the school in 1937.
The three songs to be presented on June 4 have as their themes the start of a new life in a new place, the beauty of diversity and the precept that everyone’s voice matters in our democracy. The first song, New Life in a New World, honors both the spirit of the original Greenbelt residents (traditionally referred to as Greenbelt pioneers), as well as the new American citizens who will have taken the oath of citizenship earlier in the day, in a public ceremony at the Community Center at noon.
For more on this story, see the June 1 News Review