Art History: Lynn Heritage Mural

   Lynn Heritage Park Mural, (sculpture)

      Kelsie Verdini

Artists: Marvin Rosenburg and Lilli Ann Killen Rosenburg
Lynn Heritage Park Mural, 1987

Medium:  Glazed ceramic and found objects

Owner/Location: Administered by State of Massachusetts Environmental Management Department Massachusetts

Located Lynn Heritage State Park 154 Lynnway Lynn Massachusetts

Summary:

A mural consisting of nine mosaic panels illustrating the past, present, and future of Lynn, Massachusetts is installed on the east side of the Seaport Landing Condominiums. The focus of the mural is the city's reputation as one of the top shoe manufacturers in the world and its future as General Electric's Factory of the Future.

"I've traveled far and wide yet i've kept a feeling deep inside about a place that I know where I belong.  I belong in Lynn.  For history found a place where workers and heroes

set the spirit high.  They knew they’d win in Lynn. Now it’s time to build a future city by the sea to put our minds together make Lynn what it can be. All the world will see how beautiful she is the city by the sea, a city where people can live and work and play want to stay."

(Lyric by Douglass Stevens)

 

            

"Lynn is like no other New England city both in situation and surroundings.  She has a beauty and a charm all her own and in natural physical characteristics is displayed a marked individuality.  All the varied scenes of town, sea-shore and country are found within her borders.  No other city of the New World can boast of such an endless variety of landscape and sea-view, hill and valley, lake and river, cottage crowned cliff and rock bound shore with bright waters of the Bay dimpling and sparkling in the sunlight."