Norris ‘Wedding Gown’ show rescheduled
The “Wedding Gown Fashion Show” that was supposed to be held this past Sunday to begin a series of 75th birthday events for Norris has been rescheduled for 3 p.m. this coming Sunday (Jan. 28) at the Norris Religious Fellowship building.
It was postponed because of last week’s snow event.
This is to be the first of a series of events scheduled over the next few months to help celebrate Norris’s three-quarters of a century as an official municipality.
The theme of this first event is “Here Comes the Bride, 1930s-Present.”
Highlighting the events will be the Norris Birthday Celebration to be held May 18 in the Town Center Commons area.
This all-inclusive celebration will include a program, live music, birthday cake, antique cars from the 1930s and ’40s, a posterboard historical display of 20 events that led to the creation of Norris, and a Norris citizens group photo.
Among the other events will be the Norris Little Theater’s production of the historical play “Norris, Where I Belong,” which will be presented at the Museum of Appalachia April 12, 13 and 14. Announcements will be made soon on where and how to buy tickets.
The “Norris 75th Birthday Commemorative Book” will also be available for sale during the celebration.
This high-quality publication will include many photos and short, focused commentaries, Beeman said. It will highlight “the 75th birthday theme of recognizing the vital importance [of] citizen volunteers in preserving the living history of Norris.”
There will be a bus tour on June 15 to visit historical sites in and surrounding Norris. Seating will be limited, and reservations will be required. Registration information will be announced later.
In conjunction with the May 18 birthday celebration, the Betty Ann Jolly Norris Public Library will host a “Chalk Walk.”
People of all ages and varying artistic abilities will be encouraged to create chalk drawings/artwork on the sidewalks around the library and Norris Middle School on the morning of May 18.
Although Norris was created by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the early 1930s as a model community to house workers and engineers building the nearby Norris Dam – TVA’s very first hydroelectric dam – Norris was not officially incorporated as a city until early 1949.
A brief ceremony, date still to be determined but most likely in April, will be held to plant a tree in the Commons to commemorate the city’s 75th birthday.