Beloved Rochester street mural gets its annual touchup. 7:36 pm, Jun. 6, 2021 ×
The freshly painted street mural at the intersection of Seventh Street and Fifth Avenue Southeast in Rochester. Photo taken Sunday, June 6, 2021. (Andrew Link / alink@postbulletin.com)
Blue paint splattered across 8-year-old Eleanor Clermont s legs as she knelt down to trace her large brush over the bumpy street near Hawthorne School. She d occasionally pause and admire her work or refresh her paint supply, as music blared from nearby speakers. They get to get messy! said her father, Blake Clermont, as he watched Eleanor and her younger sister Colleen contribute to the kaleidoscope flower mural in the intersection of Seventh Street and Fifth Avenue in Rochester s Slatterly Park.