The Interesting History Behind the Evansville Civic Center Mural
I was scrolling through my Facebook page
killing time being a productive employee (Whew! Dodged a bullet there), when I saw a post from Evansville Police Chief Billy Bolin that caught my eye. It was the photo above that drew me in first. A beautifully detailed mural of some of the more prominent landmarks in the city; the Old Courthouse downtown, Willard Library on First Avenue, the start of the Main Street Walkway, and more called
The Treasures of Our Community are Among Us, by Eric Braysmith. But, it was the story Chief Bolin shared about the painting s origins that I found to be even more interesting. It turns out the Chief and this mural have a history with each other that dates back to before his time in law enforcement.
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This Tuesday, January 19
th, is the fifth annual National Day of Racial Healing. Battle Creek City Commissioner Boonikka Herring was on the WBCK Morning Show with Tim Collins to talk about what’s planned for the local community. Herring, born and raised in Battle Creek, was elected to the City Commission in November. She owns a business called “Cakes by Boo” and teaches cake decorating and baking for KCC at Lifelong Learning, and she is also a Racial Healing Practitioner for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT). “What we do is we facilitate healing circles for people of different races,” said Herring. “We bring people together and try and help them experience some of the struggles that everyone else goes through to try and a commonality. It’s really beautiful because you get people that normally aren’t in the same spaces, and you get them to open up and talk about the things they’ve experienced or the things that hurt them or the things
Fourteen years ago, Willard Library started its “Battle Creek Reads” program, which encourages community members to read the same book, talk about it, and then meet the author. This year, library patrons will have to settle for an on-line meeting, but the books and authors for 2021 have been selected.
This year s selections will illustrate the theme “The Ties That Bind Us”. The books are “The Distance Between Us” by Reyna Grande and “A Woman is No Man” by Etaf Rum.
Public Relations Librarian Kristine Pioch says they usually choose one book, but this year the committee chose two. Our committee of about six library staff, headed up by library director Cathy Lucas, started with eight books this year. We read all of them, and then narrowed it down to two.