Greensboro museum marks Civic Season with free July events
Greensboro History Museum is tying Civic Season to America 250 with a July 8 Declaration reading, a 250 Wish Wall and free family programs rooted in Guilford County history.
Free July events at the Greensboro History Museum will connect America’s 250th birthday to Guilford County history, with a 250 Wish Wall, a Declaration of Independence reading and family programming built around civic life. The museum, at 130 Summit Ave., will be closed Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4 before the Civic Season events begin.
The Wish Wall will run from Tuesday, July 7 through Sunday, September 20, giving visitors nearly 11 weeks to add a message to the national project led by Made By Us. The museum is one of hundreds of museums, libraries and community organizations taking part, and Civic Season organizers say the effort now includes 1,000 participating third spaces and has reached 85 million Americans.
The centerpiece of the week is a Declaration of Independence reading on Wednesday, July 8 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The observance is part of a synchronized America250 event that will begin at 6 p.m. EDT and bring communities in all 50 states, five territories, the District of Columbia and the Minor Outlying Islands into the same reading of the nation’s founding document.
Museum director Carol Ghiorsi Hart said Civic Season bridges the country’s newest federal holiday and its oldest national celebration, pushing visitors to think about emancipation, founding documents and civic engagement at the same time. That framing gives Greensboro’s program a sharper local edge: it places the city’s public history work inside the larger run-up to the 250th anniversary of independence, while also pointing back to the Revolution and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
The museum’s Lifted Voices series will continue that approach through free, family-friendly living history performances with costumed interpreters. A June 20 Civic Season program featured Ishmael Titus, Laura Weil Cone, Katie Dorsett and Lonnie Revels, with guided tours leaving every 10 to 15 minutes. Earlier Lifted Voices programs also included Gertrude Weil, J. Kenneth Lee and Gov. William R. Davie.
The museum is also using the summer to reach children ages 5 to 14 with colonial activities and lessons about the American Revolution and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. That program runs from mid-June through early August and keeps the emphasis on hands-on learning, civic engagement and the local history that shaped Greensboro long before the national anniversary arrives.
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