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If these walls...
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mately 400 hours to complete
the restoration. Horribly affected
byyears of dirt, shellac, and even
a mysterious hole, the murals
werenot onlyfilthybut paintwas
flaking and peeling off. Mueller
had to first stabilize the panel
surfaces by spray-varnishingthe
worst areas and then creating a
mixture of alkyd, enamel and oil
paint from which he created a
palette of neutral primers, which
served to hold the deteriorating
areas in place.
The panels had all turned a
"darkish brown, bruised grey
color,"saidMueller.Todetermine
Coleman'soriginalpaint palette,
Mueller closely examined the
paintings.Themuralsinthebase-
ment,althoughsowaterdamaged
that they have the appearance
of a dried and cracked riverbed
offered the greatest opportunity
to understand Coleman's colors
as they were least damaged by
light and dirt.Thesemuralsreveal
vibrant hues of violet, green and
strikingreds,offset bysoft pastels
that capture the shimmering
sunlight on the calm waters of
the harbor.
The entrance foyer murals,
inspired by Masefield's poems
"Cargoes" and the last to be
painted, are almost completely
restored
Like Coleman's work for the
WPA, Mueller also created art
for public consumption. Muellei
began his artistic career in New
YorkCity,where he developed an
impressive resume working as a
designer and creative director
for a variety of promotion and
advertising companies. Aftei
14 years, he moved to the West
coast, where he began working
for Warner Brothers Studios,
ultimately becomingone of then
lead animators and promotional
designers.In2001hemoved back
to Cape Cod, where he paints
and teaches through the Cotuit
Center for the Arts.
The board of Pope John PaulD
High School, in keeping with the
desire of the town officials who
approved the sale of the old high
school, plans to allow the public
accessto allofColeman'sworksin
the building.The murals, created
to inspireinthe depths of the De-
pression andthen left to decay foi
decades,continuetoteachthatart
is an antidote to adversity.
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Wednesday night and to ev-
ery Friday night to go to the
Mashpee concerts. I loved
the entertainers, asdid many
other people. IsawFour Guys
in Tuxes, the Lou Columbo
band, a heavy-set Irishman
(sadly,Icannot remember his
name, but he made me laugh
with his act of wearing many
different hats), the United
States Air Force Band, and
lots of other acts.
People had an opportunity
to socialize with each other
and make friends - some-
thing which is very difficult
in today's impersonal and
hectic world. The concerts
took me back into time to an
Americathat was happy and
carefree. Those summer con-
certs could have been painted
by Norman Rockwell himself,
but now those concerts are
gone like everything else that
is innocent, good, and noble
in America today.
I am angry because I feel
that those concerts were
stolen from me and everyone
else as well. A wonderful
quality of life was stolen
from Mashpee -and allof the
merchantswhohave storesin
the Mashpee Commonshave
a duty and an obligation to
payfor abeautifulbandstand
on the piece of land across
the street from the Mashpee
Public Library.
The Mashpee Commons
merchants are foolishnot to
pay for a bandstand because
people who go to concerts
stay at Mashpee Commons
after concerts to spend their
money. So, buildabandstand
and bring those concerts
back!
Scott Wolfe
Mashpee
Tell me about
Massachusetts
I am a 5th grade student at
Coronado Beach elementary
SchoolinNew SmyrnaBeach,
Florida. I have adopted your
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state asaclassproject.Please
send meonepicturepostcard
from your state. Please do
not send me anything but a
postcard. We are unable to
accept letters or packages
due to safety precautions.
I am writing in the hopes
of getting a postcard from
as many different people as
possible. It would be great
if some will take the time
to write a short note on the
postcard telling me some-
thing interesting or special
about your state.
I hope your readers can
help me with my project.
My classmates are also do-
ing this project. Each of us
has chosen a different state.
I would like to become an
expert on your state. Please
accept my thanksinadvance
for your help and the help of
your readers.
Marriah Soldeviila
New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
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McDonald and Grenier,
who is still running the
Carver system, made site
visits to Hyannis West and
John Simpkins yesterday
to meet with staff and par-
ents.He saidthey expected
to make their choice today
and introduce him to the
school committeeTuesday
night at town hall.
"Both are great guys,
great leaders," McDonald
said. "It's a very difficult
decision."
Meanwhile, Grenier,who
continuesto run the Carver
system,hasbeen attending
school committee meet-
ings and making herself
available at other times as
all involved work toward
a smooth transition by
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Study of fire districts...
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study will seek to ascertain
whether Barnstable isunique
as a community and the pres-
ent structure makes sense, or if
there could be a better way. If
the answer is the latter, then a
deeper analysis would be war-
ranted.
The key, according td both
Barton and Canedy, is for an
independent source to make
that determination.
Issues such as personnel ,
equipment, benefits , debt , legal
authority and the like are likely
components ofsuch aninvestiga-
tion, according to Barton.
The issue of consolidation
is and has been a touchy one
between town officials and the
fire districts, all of which were
created through special acts of
the Legislature. The universal
opinion among the districts is
that it would take a reversal of
those special acts to undo the
districts.
There'sdiffering opinion with-
intown hall.TownAttorneyRob-
ert Smith has long maintained
that the Home Rule amendment
to the state constitution allows
the Town of Barnstable to simply
abolish and assume the districts
through a vote of its legislative
body, the town council.
Much of the committee's at-
tention has been focused on fire
and emergency services,leaving
water departments mostly out of
the discussion.
The Consolidation
Question
The idea of consolidating the
districts into a single entity
goes back at least 70 years and
predates the creation ofthe West
Barnstable Fire District.
In 1936, an article was intro-
duced at town meeting to see
about consolidation of the then
four fire districts. It failed.
The charter adopted in 1989
included a single paragraph at
the end requiring the new gov-
ernment to commission a study
of the town'sfire districts. That
study was performed by the
town's management advisory
board in 1991 and updated a
year later. The conclusion was
that there might be some ef-
ficiencies gained, but the fire
district structure was not likely
to change unless the call came
from the districts themselves.
The most comprehensive in-
ternal reviews at the district
levels were done in Cotuit and
Barnstable. Cotuit's was the
most ambitious , looking at
wider-ranging governance is-
sues, but with the fire district
as the focus. The roots of that
report can be found in the oc-
casionalsecessionist movements
from the town's western-most
village.
The Barnstable Village report
looked at possible mergers
of resources among districts,
including West Barnstable and
Hyannis.
Attemptsto resolve the ques-
tion on a townwide ballot have
twice failed, once by a resound-
ing"no"vote and asecond before
it got that far.
The last attempt to address
the consolidation question came
in 2003, when a bid to place a
non-binding referendum on the
ballot failed.