Murals of Memories

“Shell Rockers will talk,” the Clarksville Star announced in the November 1901 paper. A telephone exchange was coming to Shell Rock. Since then, Shell Rock has had telephone service, first with an operator and a switchboard, and today with Butler-Bremer Communications. This summer, the importance of the telephone to the community was commemorated on the side of the Butler-Bremer building with a mural painted by Dr. Barbara Dilly, whose artwork is featured throughout the town.
     “There are other murals on Main Street. We thought it would be a nice addition and enhance the look of the building,” Butler-Bremer General Manager Rich McBurney said. “We have a lot of customers down there, so we want to support the city.”
     Dilly started the commissioned project a couple weeks ago and finished on Monday, August 13.
     Since it’s hot, she paints for a couple hours, and then goes home, drinks ice water, works on something else, and then comes back for another stretch of painting.
 
Read more in the August 16 edition of the STAR.