Glouster Open House and Memory Tour
Dedication Saturday, May 24, 2003, 9:00 to 11:00 am.

David Angle, Mayor of Glouster, Master of Ceremonies. Celebrate with the Trimble High School Band, guest speaker Leslie Lilly, mural volunteers, and visit with community members. Take a self-guided Memory Tour of the town and have a Taste of Glouster courtesy of our local restaurants. Many local businesses and organization offices will host open houses during the tour.

The Glouster mural is painted on 30 panels attached to a free-standing wood framework and on the brick side wall of Rushing's Tire and Auto Center, 1 Main Street, Glouster, Ohio.

Muralist Terry Fortkamp says in her essay Creating a Historical Community Mural: An Artist's View:

"In the historical community mural process, it is the artist's place to listen to the community's view of itself and its history--to gather thoughts, ideas, photos and pictures, and finally to draw and paint an image which tells the community's story...

Each element of the mural slowly came together.

During the building of the wall, many townspeople not met previously joined the process spontaneously.

Some helped build the wall--their new ideas seemed important and began filling the empty spaces in the layout. After the layout was finalized and after ten evenings of projecting the line drawing on the wall, it was most rewarding to have people come by admiring and appreciating our efforts.

It took so many people to get this far--builders, people painting the backdrop, people scrubbing the building, putting mortar on the building, etc., etc.

Unfortunately the delays on building the wall put us into mid-September and the final line drawing was on by October 5 (2000)... there is still more work to be done. The colors have yet to be worked out and carefully placed to depict the final flavor of the portrayal of Glouster's history."

--excerpt from Community Murals: Handbook & Case Studies.

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