WEDNESDAY DAILY

Maquoketa's first full-scale, outdoor Mural is finished, on the back west wall of Mayberry Home Appliance in downtown Maquoketa.    You can view it from the alley and large parking lot.   Artist Jen Fowler's painting is about the Eagle Cigar Factory, a major employer in the town's history.     The Mural depicts portraits of the company's founders in sepia tones, surrounded by flowers and graphics from historical cigar packaging and advertising.     Mac's Wine Cellar next door may have been the site of the cigar facility.    Mayberry's also own the wine cellar and hired Jen to do the Mural.   

And the second Mural is now finished on the north wall of the building at the corner of Main and Pleasant streets, across from the green space, owned by Bob Wagener.     A local steering committee led by Nancy Kilburg with the Maquoketa Art Experience teamed up with the East Central Intergovernmental Association to build on a partnership with the University of Iowa Outreach and Engagement and students who completed the Grant Wood Public Art residency.   The Mural's design will encapsulate many of the features that make Maquoketa "One Of A Kind".     University of Iowa graduate student artist, Drew Etienne,  just completed it today.    Funding for the
Mural is continuing.    Anyone wishing to donate to the Mural
may do so at Maquoketa Art Experience.   

It has Maquoketa area scenes...the Caves, Lime Kilns, Trails

AND More.

TWO OWNERS OF HOMES IN MAQUOKETA.....ON

SOUTH MAIN STREET AND WEST SUMMIT

STREET,  NO LONGER HAVE TO MOW A STEEP BANK.

AND BOTH WALLS,  RECENTLY COMPLETED,  LOOK NICE.

THESE FOUR WERE ON THE  "TODAY"  SHOW TODAY.

SHERRY BICKFORD, HER MOTHER GAIL HANLON AND

HUSBANDS.   SHERRY IS A TEACHER AT BRIGGS.

DEWITT HAD THEIR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT NIGHT LAST NIGHT.

WAS WONDERING WHEN MAQUOKETA'S WOULD BE

THIS  YEAR?    ANSWER ABOVE.

STARTING THIS FRIDAY NIGHT,  "ALADDIN" WILL BE SHOWN FIRST AND "LION KING" AFTER.

DENNIS VOY