By Storefronts in downtown Greeley. The Liberty 250 exhibit is on display this week at Aims Community College on West 20th Street.Photo: Peter Romero, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A traveling Revolutionary War exhibit went up at Aims Community College in Greeley on Veterans Day and is scheduled to remain through Friday, Nov. 13, the Greeley Tribune reported. The Liberty 250 display stands between the Student Commons and Allied Health buildings at 5121 W. 20th St. The Tribune described it as a 180-linear-foot exhibit of 15 large panels on events leading up to and during the war, beginning in 1765. Aims Veteran Services, which is hosting the installation, also calls it a 180-linear-foot display of large-scale historical panels and says it is free and open to the public. Ross Atkinson, the college’s Veteran Services program manager, told the Tribune, “We wanted it to be something that’s very noticeable that you could see.”
Atkinson, who also sits on the board of Veterans Plaza of Northern Colorado, the nonprofit that owns the exhibit, requested the stop as part of Veterans Week at Aims, the Tribune said. A committee spent 18 months assembling the subject matter and gathering images from the Library of Congress, the Yale University Art Gallery, the National Archives and other sources, he said, trying to cover major events and individual veterans. Panels include the Boston Tea Party, the Siege of Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris, as well as figures such as George Washington, Paul Revere and the Marquis de Lafayette, the paper reported. Atkinson, a U.S. Army veteran who was deployed to Afghanistan, said at least 300 veterans attend Aims.
The exhibit has already traveled to other Northern Colorado communities and, as of midweek, had no other dates scheduled, the Tribune said. Atkinson said crews would begin taking it down late Friday afternoon. “There were people fighting and dying for this idea and this belief who never got to see it realized,” he said. “That’s the important part of the Revolutionary War.”
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