Heart and Art

(Better on black. Press "L".)

The new mural, revealed on May 21, in Grand Ledge, Michigan. I don't see that the work has a title, but it was the product of a project named "The Heart and Art of Grand Ledge" and involved the collaboration of a number of GL area residents with the assistance of local artist Tony Hendrick. The painting overlooks the town's tiny ballpark, Fitzgerald Field, which is perched between this building and the Grand River, next to (nominally beneath) the Bridge Street bridge.

Thus the ball player in the foreground. Everything else is sort of a history of Grand Ledge along the river: The round building is Mudge's Folly, which was built on Second Island in the 1890s as part of the Seven Islands Resort. It survived into the 1950s. The arched bridge crossed the Grand River--right here--for eight decades beginning in 1910. The still-extent railroad "high" bridge is visible; so's the town's older water tower. Doubtless there are references I've missed, as the painting's just full of detail.