Coster Ave. Mural Project Completed

Originally published March 2016 · p. 20

Coster Ave. Mural Project Completed Co-owner Mark Moran, right, from Lucid Glass Studio of East Providence, R.I., and Kevin Dyer were in Gettysburg on Dec. 14 to replace five color-mismatched panels in the Brickyard Fight mural. Artist Mark H. Dunkelman painted the original 70-footlong mural honoring the July 1, 1863, fight by Col. Charles Coster’s brigade in 1988 (see November 2015 CWN). It was replaced last October with glass panels in hopes they would be more permanent. Dunkelman said that some visitors didn’t like the reflections in the glass image. “I’ve grown to like them, even the way they appear in photos,” he says. “There’s something about melding today’s world with 1863 at that particular spot, where today’s world is so prominent in the surroundings, that I find appealing.”