The public is invited to the unveiling of the Greene County Freedom Rock later today.

Greenfield artist Bubba Sorensen has been at the county fairgrounds in Jefferson since last week, painting four murals on the 30,000-pound granite rock. Since starting his Freedom Rock tour in 2013, Sorensen tells Raccoon Valley Radio that Greene County’s rock is the 55th he’s done across the state. His goal is to paint a rock in all of Iowa’s 99-counties. He says there have been challenges painting on rocks, but describes how he deals with any obstacles.

“I’ve tried to let go of some of the realism in place of impressionism and what that is, is you kind of work with just lights and darks and not get so knit-picky about the intragent little details that you would be able to work out in like an oil painting in a studio. Rather than just beat my head against a wall trying to get everything just thus and so perfect, I allow it to be a little more impressitic.”     

The Greene County Freedom Rock committee will unveil the rock at 4pm at it’s location in front of the grain elevator on the fairgrounds.

A soup supper fundraiser will follow at Clover Hall with all proceeds going to the Freedom Rock project.