Hoppy Trails Photo Reception

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Follow that frog to the Kerri Gallery!

10/28/2014 – 11/2/2014

Kerri Art Studio & Gallery
866 Main Street
Willimantic, CT06226
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Join the Willimantic frogs – Willy, Manny, Windy and Swifty – for HOPPY TRAILS! 

The four traveling frogs have returned from their northeast Connecticut adventures and now their journey will be displayed at Kerri Art Studio & Gallery, 861 Main St, Willimantic, Conn., for ‘Hoppy Trails,' October 28 to November 2. The photo exhibit's opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, October 30, from 6 to 8 p.m.

A project of Thread City Development, ‘Hoppy Trails’ is a photo project created to celebrate and bring awareness to Willimantic and northeast Connecticut. Four stuffed frogs, each accompanied by a photographer, explored northeast Connecticut while their human guide captured their excursions in a series of photographs. The frogs – Willy, Manny, Windy and Swifty – are named after the four bronze frog statues that adorn Thread City Crossing, commonly known as The Frog Bridge.

The frogs have returned to Willimantic to celebrate the Thread City Crossing frogs receiving their winter scarves. Last year Thread City Development, in partnership with Willimantic Renaissance, hosted a fundraiser – S.O.S. Save Our Scarves –to raise money for new winter scarves for the frog statues. The previous scarves had gotten damaged and lost during winter 2012. The scarves are currently schedule to go up in November, weather permitting.

‘Hoppy Trails’ photographers:

· Winter Caplanson, Coventry Regional Farmers' Market / Connecticut Food and Farm

· Karen J. Gilbransen, Thread City Development / Willimantic Brewing Company

· Rita Rivera, Love & Pop Designs

· Megan, 11-year-old student


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Thread City Development
P.O Box 1257
Willimantic, CT 06226

860.455.4673 info@willimanticdowntown.org


WillimanticDowntown.org was partially funded by a grant from Connecticut Main Street Center and the ‘Preservation of Place’ program in cooperation with the State Historic Preservation Office with funds from Community Investment Act of the State of Connecticut
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