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Time for a new slideshow since PhotoBucket's new site's slideshow feature isn't working yet...
Click the sound button in the upper left of the image and you'll get a nice musical accompinament!!
Number 28 will be installed in Franklin Grove, IL
Here's the story of the Cloisonné pin, the two gentlemen and the building as told on the mural:
Henry C. Ostermann, the first Lincoln Highway Association Field Secretary, was an avid promoter of the new Lincoln Highway. He was a veteran of 121 transcontinental highway trips, meeting with Association Consuls in each state and the most notable, as a guide for the 1919 military convoy with Lieutenant Colonel Dwight Eisenhower. Ostermann is credited with launching the grassroots fundraising for the Lincoln Highway. One such event took place on February 14, 1914, when Ostermann sold the very first Lincoln Highway pins to a gathering at the Lincoln Highway Booster Days in Franklin Grove’s historic H.I. Lincoln Building.
53 hours to paint the entire pictorial (and clean brushes) . . . Basically, this is a 9' x 18' mural.
As always, mural panel engineering and border work by the stellar Joe Marshall . . . my design and paint.
We've almost complted Crest Hill #2 (#29) and Chicago Heights (#30). Bill Hueg returned to assist - and in the case of Chicago Heights, led the project. We end like we started . . . with the 3 of us making it happen. I love my job . . .
All that is remaining is Sterling, IL and Rochelle, IL . . . Done for good as of April 18th . . . 4 years gone. Wow . . .
-------------------- Jay Allen ShawCraft Sign Co. Machesney Park, IL jallen222@aol.com http://www.shawcraft.com/
"The object of the superior man is truth." -Confucius Posts: 1285 | From: Machesney Park, IL, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Thanks, guys . . . especially you, Sonny. For that last comment.
Letterheads teach and share. I did what we all do. I just had a big job is the only difference.
As Walldogs we do the sharing through public art - which affords a community an identity. Same thing - further reach into society. No longer are we cloaked in solitude in a shop - or a reception hall or some other space not seen by the public. The Walldogs transition was one of the last best p[laces to wet a brush . . .
With the Letterheads spirit as their driver . . .
It'll be an emotional purge when I lay that last stroke of paint . . . then screw in that last screw. Bet on it . . . A challenge that now seems even more daunting in hindsight.
Good thing I was stupid when I accepted it . . .!!! It changed me in so many ways.
-------------------- Jay Allen ShawCraft Sign Co. Machesney Park, IL jallen222@aol.com http://www.shawcraft.com/
"The object of the superior man is truth." -Confucius Posts: 1285 | From: Machesney Park, IL, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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