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Pier project honors W.Va. sesquicentennial
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By ASHLEY B. CRAIG, Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — When it was announced the theme of this year's Peer to Pier project was celebrating the state's 150th birthday, Chris Nelson knew he had to participate.
A recent hot afternoon found him, paintbrush in hand, perched on a scaffold working on his concrete canvas. The pier, which supports a stretch of Interstate 64, stands on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue South and Virginia Street.
It's a good spot, as motorists waiting at the traffic signal on Virginia Street can get a long look at the painting he's already worked on for more than 100 hours. It highlights his love of the state's history.
A Confederate soldier sits atop a black horse with his sword at the ready to face off against a Union soldier standing with his pistol drawn. Two flags, the traditional U.S. flag and the Confederate national flag, are crossed behind them with a blue West Virginia and gray Virginia between them.
"West Virginia is really unique in that it was the only state formed out of another state in the War Between the States," said Nelson, 43. "It was literally brother against brother out there. So these are my two brothers."
The men both have brown hair, but their faces will not bear any distinct features, leaving them open to interpretation as any two brothers, he said.
A pensive President Abraham Lincoln is seen on the other side of the pier and behind him Presidential Proclamation 100, which he signed to grant West Virginia's entry into the Union as a state. Nelson said he planned to paint the proclamation on the pier in its entirety so that it could be read.
For the rest: http://www.wral.com/pier-project-honors-w-va-sesquicentennial/12719812/
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By ASHLEY B. CRAIG, Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — When it was announced the theme of this year's Peer to Pier project was celebrating the state's 150th birthday, Chris Nelson knew he had to participate.
A recent hot afternoon found him, paintbrush in hand, perched on a scaffold working on his concrete canvas. The pier, which supports a stretch of Interstate 64, stands on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue South and Virginia Street.
It's a good spot, as motorists waiting at the traffic signal on Virginia Street can get a long look at the painting he's already worked on for more than 100 hours. It highlights his love of the state's history.
A Confederate soldier sits atop a black horse with his sword at the ready to face off against a Union soldier standing with his pistol drawn. Two flags, the traditional U.S. flag and the Confederate national flag, are crossed behind them with a blue West Virginia and gray Virginia between them.
"West Virginia is really unique in that it was the only state formed out of another state in the War Between the States," said Nelson, 43. "It was literally brother against brother out there. So these are my two brothers."
The men both have brown hair, but their faces will not bear any distinct features, leaving them open to interpretation as any two brothers, he said.
A pensive President Abraham Lincoln is seen on the other side of the pier and behind him Presidential Proclamation 100, which he signed to grant West Virginia's entry into the Union as a state. Nelson said he planned to paint the proclamation on the pier in its entirety so that it could be read.
For the rest: http://www.wral.com/pier-project-honors-w-va-sesquicentennial/12719812/
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