05/21/2026
We had a special supervisor at our Mural Repair Day festivities this afternoon! Momma Fox came by to check out what we were doing to her house, sniffing lids, drills and discarded coats, before scooching underneath to feed her kits. Five years ago we hung the mural, designed by Sheryl DeLong, to honor the five baby foxes born that year under the storage shed. It was quite a project! The community saved plastic lids for a year, the After School kids spending that time washing and sorting them into colors by the tub-full. It took months to construct, the kids learned to use a drill to attach tens of thousands of lids to four painted 4X8 foot panels. Since then, our mural has been featured in newspapers and magazines, visited by countless tourists, and sent through the Internet all around the world. After the last couple winters of extreme weather - ice storms, hail events, and this year over ten feet of snow - some of the plastic lids were damaged, shattered and lost. Today, library staff along with our friend Bill Barber spent the afternoon replacing lids in the most damaged areas. We are very much in need of orange lids so we can further repair the foxes. If our community can once again save every orange, rust, red and dark red lid they can find we would really appreciate it! Thanks again Bill!!!! We sure appreciate your help and ingenuity!
