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Prior to the board of trustees meeting, a brief dedication ceremony was held for the new amphitheater and Legacy Walk in the University of Central Arkansas. The amphitheater has become a centerpiece for the campus, featuring a walk inscribed with the names of alumni who have purchased commemorative bricks.
Dedication of the Monticello Sculpture Gardens and "Crazy Horse" by Peter Voulkos, May 10, 2013. From left: Artists John Medwedeff, Dale Threlkeld, Richard Hunt and Michael Dunbar get a closer look at the sculpture after dedication.
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Mural group hopes history lessons will breathe new life into downtown Barstow
June 1, 2008 - 11:14AM
By ABBY SEWELL, staff writer
BARSTOW — Jane Laraman-Brockhurst hopes that a fusion of art and history will help to revitalize downtown Barstow.
Laraman-Brockhurst is the president of the non-profit Main Street Murals organization, which dedicated its ninth mural project in Barstow on Saturday. The dedication of the mural, which is the second in Main Street Murals’ “Native American Voices from the Mojave Desert” series, also marked the kick-off of a new monthly walking tour of downtown Barstow. The tour covers highlights of Barstow’s history, as told through the murals along Main Street.
“The mural program is education, redevelopment, community pride, all of those things,” Laraman-Brockhurst said.
She envisions the free monthly tours drawing Barstow residents and tourists alike, and encouraging business owners to open up shops in the downtown Main Street strip. Along with the “24-hour art gallery” of murals along Main Street, Laraman-Brockhurst pictures businesses like a coffee shop and a bookstore, where friends can meet up and spend an afternoon wandering in and out of stores downtown.
At some point, she said the monthly walking tours may morph into a horse-drawn carriage tour, which would add some historical color and allow people who are unable to walk long distances to participate.
Local history buff Steve Smith, president of the Mojave River Valley Museum, led a group of about 20 local people on a tour of Barstow’s history Saturday, as told through murals lining Main Street between First and Seventh Street. The history lesson begins with the newest mural, depicting Native tribes of the Mojave as they hunt, gather desert plants and make food and other basic necessities. It runs through early explorers, gold miners, and trail blazers, and ends up with the more recent history of Route 66 and famous Barstow sites like the Harvey House.
“History is kind of a hobby that has taken over my life a little bit,” Smith said.
Yiyoung Chloe Hong, 17, will carry a piece of Barstow history with her back to Korea. The exchange student, who just finished up her sophomore year at Barstow High School and heads back to Korea at the end of June, helped paint the newest mural. She was one of several students in the high school Art Club who spent about three months working on the piece.
“I learned a lot about Native Americans, because before we painted, we researched a lot,” she said. “It was a chance to learn about the area.”
Fellow Art Club members Jiazi “Kitty” Guo, 17, and Penny Smith, 15, said they learned a lot in the process as well.
The students started off by doing research in the library. While the mural was in progress, they spent several hours every Wednesdays and Sunday painting the panels at Laraman-Brockhurst’s house in Newberry Springs under the direction of muralist David Brockhurst, Barstow High School art teacher Sabrina Gilmore said. The completed panels were erected on the side of the Odyssey building on the southwest corner of Barstow Road and Main Street.
The next major educational art project Main Street Murals has planned will focus on the Ice Age, Laraman-Brockhurst said, but in the meantime, the group is planning several smaller projects to be completed in the fall, including murals depicting Barstow’s old Beacon Tavern and the 20-mule teams used by mining companies to haul borax from Death Valley in the late 1800s.
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Fun facts from the Main Street Murals walking tour:
• General Edward Beale led a surveying expedition of men on camel-back from New Mexico to California in 1857. When the expedition ended, many of the camels were sold to miners, and some of them were turned loose in the desert. Camels were sighted roaming the desert periodically after that, with the latest reported sighting being in Hollywood in the mid 1930s.
• Each restaurant in the historic chain of Harvey Houses had its own specialty, which it supplied to other Harvey Houses in the area. The “Casa del Desierto” Harvey House in Barstow, built in 1911, supplied ice cream and ice, while the Harvey House in Needles handled laundry service.
Source: Steve Smith, Mojave River Valley Museum president
The American flag flies at the entrance of the Randall David Shughart Elementary and Middle Schools during the dedication ceremony for the school complex October 6, 2011. Sergeant 1st Class Randall D. Shughart was killed during an operation to rescue a downed American helicopter crew in Somalia in 1993 and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
an evening at our kingdom hall dedication day (2nd-floor), this is first KH project in surabaya, east java, and encouragement experiences on construction period chairman by bro. Budiman Hadja
Inv. 13060 & 13057: Figurines of shepherds wearing a hat, cape, and closed shoes. Late 6th-early 5th c. BCE
Miniature bronze votives from the sanctuary of Pan Nomios at Berekla (Neda), Parrhasia, Arkadia, Greece.
National Archaeological Museum
Athens, Greece
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