Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
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Big Ditch Crickets perform in their "home."
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Detail of mural of a jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur back when the ditch was formed.
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A swath of the flood mural, including a tile of the house just above the mural, which made it through the floods of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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A quote about the flood from a newspaper of the time.
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Erika Burleigh, gluing tiles to the wall. She helps Diana Ingalls-Leyba with the Youth Mural Project.
Work continues on the Youth Mural Project in the Big Dtich. Those looking at the mural were entertained on Saturday by the Big Ditch Crickets in their home environment.