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MY TOWN MURALS |
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LAYERS OF TIME |
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LOCATION: Interlake Blvd.
SPONSOR: Gate Petroleum
ARTIST: Dean Quigley
SIZE: 89 feet wide by 16 feet high
COMPLETED: December 1998
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10,000 years back in time when Mastodons roamed this area is where this mural will take you. You can find Indian burials dating back 2,500-5,000 even 10,000 years ago. The first picture part shows a mastodon being hunted. The second part of this mural shows us the same site only thousand of years later after the rising sea level, a wetter ,warmer climate. The design in the middle is a replica of a small silver ceremonial tablet found in the Goodnow mound near Lake Josephine. |
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When the Europeans settled in Florida around the 1500's, their presence brought profound changes to the natives. Epidemic disease, enslavement and warfare obliterated the state's true natives. If you look closely you'll see many items such as a birds, vegetables, a bullet and others lost items from the past. |
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ISTOKPOGA |
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LOCATION: Lake Placid Discount
Liquor
SPONSOR: Betty Curry
ARTIST: Keith Goodson
SIZE: 50 feet wide by 13 feet high
COMPLETED: April 24, 1994 |
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Istokpoga means "many men died here."
This mural shows two Indians, each in a different century of dress hunting a Alligator before the storm rolls over. Can you find the three Raccoons? Maybe if you were up close you could.
Lake Istokpoga has a mystery of it's own. Being only 6 feet deep it covers 27,692 acres of space. For thousands of years water draining from Lake Wales reaches Istokpoga then flows into the Lake Okeechobee then on it's way to the Everglades eventually making it's way into Florida Bay.
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