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Article: Mural's future looking brighter: Mount Gilead post office restores grime-covered Depression-era art.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2006
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Byline: Dana Wilson
Apr. 8--MOUNT GILEAD, Ohio -- Perched atop scaffolding inside the local post office, Elizabeth Kendall stretched her arm across the mural and delicately scrubbed.
Each swipe of her cotton tuft was a trip back in time, to an era when a government check could keep you off the bread line and public art brought a sense of hope to small towns.
Inch by inch, the Chicago art restorer and a colleague are removing nearly 70 years of grime from a 14-by-6-foot work of art painted in the heart of Morrow County when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president.
Nearly 100 post offices across the country have hired Kendall to restore ...