Menlo, Iowa - Freedom Rock

Address:
120th St., Menlo, IA
Directions:
I-80 exit 86. Drive south on Hwy 25 for 1.5 miles. On the left, at the corner of 120th St.

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Greenfield, Iowa - Freedom Rock

We enjoy visiting the rock every year to see what Bubba has created. Every side has a different design. They have added lights, a bench, flag pole and information board. [Candy Brown, 06/23/2006]

Greenfield, Iowa - Freedom Rock

A huge granite boulder, a magnet for graffiti for many years, was first painted with a patriotic theme in 1999 by a local artist - Ray "Bubba" Sorensen. Each year since, for Memorial Day, he paints another patriotic scene over the entire rock. The Rock has been visited by tourists and veterans on a regular basis.

Despite the use of the Rock as a graffiti pad in the past, Ray's scenes have been unsullied (with a single exception in 2001). It is rumored that the vandal then repeatedly beat a Viet Nam vet's fist with his nose, discouraging further such experiments.

On Memorial Day 29 May, 2006, a new scene was unveiled. [Mark Desman, 06/14/2006]

Greenfield, Iowa - Freedom Rock - Painted Rock in rural Iowa

"Bubba" has painted the rock for Memorial Day for at least four years, each year with different scenes. He also painted a Veterans Memorial wall in Veterans Memorial park in the town of Casey nearby. Postcards (and photos) showing each of the four scenes can be purchased from Patsy Ahnen at 1st Street Antiques, located at the intersection of 1st and Hwy. 92 (Kent Street) in Greenfield. Each "side" of the rock is painted with a different scene. It is quite a remarkable "monument"..... [Dottie, 10/20/2003]

[RA: Painted by Ray Bubba Sorenson II, the rock appears to have an American flag draped over it, with illustrations on it sides of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC, Washington crossing the Delaware, MIA logo, a pilot taking off from an aircraft carrier, and fireman and the World Trade Center rubble. There are quotes from Thomas Jefferson, JFK, and George Bush Sr. ]

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