Bloomfield to celebrate 200 years of community

The town of Bloomfield will celebrate their bicentennial on Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22. The event, hosted by Bloomfield Downtown Revitalization, will honor the 1824 creation of the town of Bloomfield 200 years ago.

A majority of the weekend’s festivities will take place on Saturday with the following schedule:

• TBD - Rotary Club Breakfast

• 9 a.m. - Pickleball tournament at the park

• 10 a.m. - Vendors open, Pop-up Museum opens

• 11 a.m. - Tentative Community Band performance

• 12 p.m. - KidsZone opens, foam party begins

• 2 p.m. - Beard/Mustache contest judging

• 3:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. - Live music starts, beer/wine opens

• 6:30 p.m. - Reading of “History of Bloomfield”

The Pop-up Museum will showcase various items from throughout its Bloomfield’s history. To send in submissions, message “Bloomfield Downtown Revitalization” on Facebook.

The Greene County Historical Society on Washington St. will host an event on the courthouse square between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.. There will be a free, family-friendly project you may participate in while listening to a narrative on “The Mystery of the Missing Seal.” There will be a display of Bloomfield courthouses in the building and you will be asked to sign the register to become part of the record of the 200th anniversary of the town.

Participants will be awarded a Bloomfield Bicentennial Ribbon as a memento while supplies last. A new group will be admitted every half-hour, and the last reading of the day will begin at 2:30 p.m. as closing will occur at 3 p.m..

In April, the Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum’s traveling foundry poured molten aluminum into scratch blocks custom-carved by avid residents and visitors along with a time capsule lid for the town’s bicentennial. Patrons were allowed to “make their mark” on the communal time capsule lid, which is set to be opened in 2049.

For more information, visit www.discoverbloomfield.com.