Photos by Mary Alice Murphy and ErnestO Stolpe
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Observing the work Photo by ErnestO Stolpe
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Working on and checking out the Big Ditch mural. Photo by ErnestO Stolpe
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Gluing tiles to the wall. Photo by ErnestO Stolpe
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Volunteers choose and place tiles. Photo by ErnestO Stolpe
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Picking a tile to fill a blank space. Photo by ErnestO Stolpe
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Talking about details. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Kyla Strain places a raindrop. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Stephanie Gutierrez gets ready to place a raindrop. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Concentrating on the tasks. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Working on a different part of the mural. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Clouds and lightning. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Lightning and big raindrops. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Volunteers, observers, and the back of the house protected by the retaining wall. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Houses along Main Street, including in the center, the Warren House, which remains today. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
MRAC Mural on Comcast Cares Day 042217
Donny Hall, Comcast technical supervisor, and organizer of Comcast volunteers for the day. Photo by Mary Alice Murphy
For the sixth year, volunteers from Comcast helped Mimbres Region Arts Council install a mural. This one on a retaining wall in the Big Ditch requires a closer look from the person walking by. The details include tiles with the names of the buildings along what was once Silver City's Main Street until it was washed out in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
Donny Hall, Comcast technical supervisor, who has worked for the company for 40 years, first in Las Cruces and now in Silver ity, said: "I think it's awesome that Mimbres Region Arts Council takes a blank wall and decorates it for the community to enjoy."
He said thousands of Comcast volunteers were working on community actitivies everywhere that day.
Diana Ingalls-Leyba, the coordinator behind all murals in Silver City, said she had Youth Conservation Corps members do research on the buildings that were washed away, and in gathering quotes from newspapers of the time.
Adults and children were also designing more tiles, to be painted and fired before becoming part of the mural.