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coinCLIPPINGS:
Rally to end war is
Sunday
Cape Codders for Peace
and Justice will host a "rally
to stop the war" Sunday at
noon on the village green in
Hyannis and a march to U.S.
Rep. Bill Delahunt's district
office nearby.
Organizers are calling on
Delahunt to sign a resolution
introduced by Massachusetts
reps Barney Frank and Jim
McGovern that would stop
funding the deployment ofUS
troops in Iraq.
Last day to register
for history onference
Coyotes, whales, basking
sharks and shorebirds are on
the agenda at the 11th annual
Cape Cod Natural History
Conference at CapeCod Com-
munityCollegeMarch 25from
9a.m.to4p.m.Fordetails,call
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctu-
ary at 508-349-2615.Admission
is $20 and the registration
deadline is today.
Budget hearings set
The Assembly of Delegates
continues to vet the Fiscal
Year 2007 budget proposal
submitted bythe county com-
missioners. Upcoming com-
mittee meetings include:
March 22: Public Service
on Department of Facilities
(2 p.m.), Registry of Deeds
(2:30), FireTrainingAcademy
(2:45), and sheriff'scontribu-
tion (3:15). Also Economic
Affairs on the Cape Cod Eco-
nomic Development Council
(3 p.m.).
March 29: Health & Human
Services on Human Services
(2:30 p.m.) and Natural Re-
sources on Department of
Health and Environment (3).
April 5: Health and Human
Services on affordable hous-
ing (2 p.m.), Public Services
on the county dredge (2) and
Cape Light Compact (2:30),
and Natural Resource on the
Cape Cod Commission (3).
April 19: Finance Commit-
tee holds a public hearing on
the budget at 2 p.m.
If these walls
could speak -
and they do
Restored WPA-
era murals of
village's maritime
history emerge at
high school
By Britt Beedenbender
news@barnstablepatriot.com
WIND INTHESAILS AGAIN- Kirk Chrisitan Mueller, left, stands by one
of the Vernon Coleman Depression-era murals he's restored recently
at Pope John Paul II High School in Hyannis. Coleman's son, Vernon,
is excited by the attention paid his father 's works.
Seventy years after their
creation, murals painted by
Hyannis artist Vernon Cole-
manareundergoingamassive
transformation.
Located in the new Pope
John Paul II High School,
the former Barnstable High
School, the murals were cre-
ated under the auspices ofthe
FederalArts Project aspart of
the Works Progress Admin-
istration, one of President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
efforts to employ millions
of jobless Americans in the
1930s. Seventy years of mois-
ture, soot and shellac had
taken its toll, and Pope John
Paul's board asked local art-
ist Kirk Christian Mueller
to conserve and restore the
paintings.
"I am very pleased and
excited about what is taking
place," said Vernon Coleman,
Jr., the artist's only son. "I
have been concerned about it
for years, especially as I saw
what was happening to the
building."
Miraculously, the murals
werenever vandalized,atesta-
ment to the appreciation and
respect that students had for
them. Ed Tynan, executive
director of Pope John Paul II
High School,saidthe trustees
"equally felt respect and a
responsibility to restore the
murals."
The project's $20,000 bud-
get, viewed as "minimal," is
being financed bythe school's
general fund. A grassroots
fund-raising effort began last
year among members of the
Barnstable High School Class
of 1949, and every effort is be-
ing made to enlist the support
of other graduating classes.
The project has proven to be
collaboration on all levels.
"It is a coming together
of all concerned - trustees,
town officials, citizens, and
past students - to maintain
atreasure, and Vern has been
a tremendous help to get us
raw data so that Kirk can go
forward withthe work,"Tynan
said. The younger Coleman,
a native of Cape Cod and
chief engineer at WQRC-FM,
is himself a 1944 graduate of
Barnstable High School.
Vernon Coleman, Sr., died
in 1978 at the age of 80. He
taught in the Barnstable
schools and served as the
art supervisor for 20 years.
During the 1930s, he was a
central figure in WPA pro-
gramsin Barnstable. Through
the WPA, Coleman was paid
a salary of $17 per week and
painted more than 100murals
and other works.Hispaintings
include an intriguing mural
located in the Centerville
Recreation Building, used as
an elementary school from
1880to 1957,of Centerville sea
captain James Delap Kelley
in his dory fishing for cod in
Centerville Harbor. In Town
HallinHyannis,then the State
Teacher'sCollege, he painted
a mural of the Red Jacket , a
ship that was captained by
Asa Eldredge of Falmouth.
It is a commanding image,
robust and representative of
Cape Cod's heritage.
The murals in the former
BarnstableHigh School are all
maritime images, the subject
matter Coleman seemed to
enjoy painting the most. His
son, who was 10 years old at
the time his father was work-
ing on the WPA projects, re-
members watching him paint
the whale hunt panels in the
basement. He also recalled
that, "He used to go down to
the beach, especially during
heavy weather and watch the
ocean."Coleman, Sr.,referred
to the murals as "The Whaling
Saga" and did his research at
the former Old Dartmouth
Museum located in New Bed-
ford. Coleman's depiction of
the whaling ship's departure ,
the ensuinghunt and the wist-
ful gaze of a woman looking
out from a widow's walk is a
dramatic conception of this
mythic struggle.
Another intriguing mural
is based on a photograph
that that artist saw taken in
the later 19th
century. It is
an image of Hyannis Harbor
with Railroad Wharf, built in
1854, extending out into the
water where more than 30
coastal schooners are moored,
mainsailsstillup, waitingfor a
favorable shift in the wind. In
the distance, Bishop &Clerk's
lighthouse, demolishedin 1952
by the Coast Guard, can be
seen off Point Gammon.
Restoring Works of Art
Mueller began work on the
murals in January and esti-
mates that itwilltake approxi-
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non-profit , tentatively called
the Barnstable Foundation,
that would serve as a clear-
inghouse for town needs.
Brower said that as en-
visioned , the board of the
foundation would be made up
of the non-profits themselves.
Workingwith the town admin-
istration, programs that are
wantedbutlackfundingwould
be identified and presented
to the foundation to see what
could be done.
Theidea wouldbe tolookfor
short-term commitments,but
notruleout long-termsolutions
if appropriate matches can be
found, Brower said.
At present , the working
group is looking for "concrete
hypothetical examples" from
the town.
"It's different concept ,"
Brower acknowledged , but
one he believes can benefit
both the non-profit sector and
the town.
The PILOT committee was
headed bytowncouncilorHank
Farnham, who stepped back
from the position whennamed
council president.
Browernowchairsthe group
investigating the foundation.
Allofthisisaworkinprogress
and another meeting with the
non-profits is planned in the
upcoming months to further
refine theconcept. Browersaid
that if there's enough interest,
and it appears there is, work
to form the non-profit group
would begin.
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