Mural honors popular trail ambassador (Daily American)
The Daily American reported on the nearly finished public artworks being created in Trail Towns along the Great Allegheny Passage. The Trail Town Public Art Project received a Community Connections Regional grant.
Maynard Sembower, who will turn 100 on Christmas Eve, is part of a community that thrived in the heyday of steam locomotives and now is prospering as a trail town along the Great Allegheny Passage.
As the Rockwood trail ambassador, Sembower’s smiling face is a familiar sight to locals and visitors alike. His likeness will soon will be on display for future generations, featured on a nearly finished mural of a train conductor on Clapper’s Building Materials along Water Street.
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Visible from the trail, the mural is the work of Diane Adams, an artists from Washington. She is one of six artists chosen by six trail town public art committees to exhibit their work along the trail as part of the Pittsburgh 250 celebration.
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