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A Bantam welcome

A 1940 Bantam pickup truck owned by the Butler County Tourism and Convention Bureau.

There are several places throughout Pennsylvania that can be recognized not by geography or architecture, but by art. Hershey has chocolate roads, Punxsutawney has a groundhog statue and Mars has a UFO.

Jeff Geibel, president of the Butler AM Rotary Club and a board member of Butler Downtown, said Butler could also have a mascot art piece welcoming people to the birthplace of the Jeep.

“We had the first Jeep built anywhere in the world. That's something that we're proud of,” Geibel said. “We have the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival that brings people to the city every year, but where is the Bantam?”

The Butler AM Rotary Club has spearheaded a project to place a metal Bantam Jeep in Butler, which would be an interactive art piece. The organization has commissioned Bill Secunda, a metal and steel artist from Summit Township, to create the piece, with a goal for it to be completed by 2024’s Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival in June.

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