FRAMING, MURALS, and OTHER STUFF.......JUNE 23 2011

I got everything done yesterday except for the framing.  I actually did find my bed, and boy did I crash.  So this morning, after finishing this blog, I will do my framing, and then head for Peninsula, Ohio.

I will be off-line until, hopefully, Monday morning, hopefully on my way to the bank, hopefully with a big smile on my face.  Time will tell.  The one thing I am looking forward to is the Friday night Artist's Reception.  Only folks over 21 are invited, they are having wine, cheese, and all the good stuff. The folks coming will have to pay $50.00 to enter, enjoy the wine and get a preview of the artists work for sale.  Should be an interesting evening.  Then Saturday and Sunday are your everyone is welcome days.  Will be a new experience for me.

Now that I've covered framing and other stuff, I will talk about Murals.

I assume you all know what murals are - very large pictures, painted on walls, buildings, woven into tapestry, that sort of thing.  I have a category (in my personal photo files, not in the business) of Murals, and thought I would share some with you.  They are amazing.

Steubenville, Ohio has the reputation as being a "City of Murals".  There are many many beautiful pictures on the different buildings as you drive through the downtown areas.

This particular mural is commemorating the steel workers, as Steubenville, like Pittsburgh Pa, and Martins Ferry Ohio, and many other towns were at one time steel towns.

At the time I graduated from high school, the boys in my class that were not going on to school to become doctors, or lawyers, or some such thing, knew they had a sure thing life-time job in the steel mills or coal mines.  Many of their fathers and grandfathers, etc. worked or had worked in these two industries.  They would have jobs forever.  That was in the past.  Those sure-fire jobs have disappeared, as so many other things have over the year.  This building is another of the Steubenville murals.

And then there is Route 30, or the Lincoln Highway as it was, and still is, known. 

This is a beautiful barn with the mural completely covering the one end. 

Murals are not new.  Murals go back to cave dweller times, their paintings on the rocks and cave walls.  Primitive, but still murals, depicting a way of life.  As we today are still using murals to depict our way of life.

Along Route 30 even the gas pumps have murals painted on them.  When is the last time you have seen something like this.

If you would like to know more of the history of the Lincoln Highway, as told from one of the murals point of view, you will find the story in Volume 2 of my IF ONLY I COULD TALK books.
The barn picture above is telling the story of the building of the Lincoln Highway and the painting of the murals.

I probably have around 40 different murals in my collection - I don't go out specifically to photograph murals, but when I come across any that are interesting, or unique, or just pretty, I try to take the time and photograph them.

So, history lesson 103.  I wonder what the next history lesson will be?

So am closing for now, have much to do before finding my friends in Peninsula later this afternoon.  I hope you all have a great weekend and God Bless.