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Published: 27 April 2017 27 April 2017

Photos by Mary Alice Murphy and ErnestO Stolpe

 

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.