Walls of Wittenberg

Wittenberg is a village in Wisconsin with a population just over a thousand souls and an amazing 30 murals that you can tour.

Wittenberg Telephone Company Mural "Number Please"

In addition to the community coming together to support this endeavor to revitalize a small town that a highway bypass left behind, an art park with landscaping and sculptures was added. Their hope is to bring some visitors to town to keep businesses thriving instead of closing. The mural above and the mural below were both painted by Reynaldo Hernandez of Milwaukee.

Rom Rojas of Door County painted "Foundations of Faith" which explores the area churches including the faith of the Ho-Chunk Nation. Speaking of the Ho-Chunk, stop and visit the Casino while you're in town!  I personally don't visit casinos, but lots of folks do and they provide needed income to Wisconsin's native population.

Here's a closer view.  It was pretty neat, the architecture enthusiast in me enjoyed it.

The murals were painted between 2006 and 2014.  Maybe when I swing through this summer I'll see them painting another, who knows? The Packer mural, "Go Pack Go" was created by Carole Bersin and Alicia Rheal. It's painted on the side of the local Sentry grocery store and was too big to fit in one shot.  I'm not a sports fan and have never watched a football game on television, but I am going to Lambeau Field in March for an optical continuing education event as one of the vendors so I'm getting in for free to see the stadium.  I'm told the host for the event has great snacks between educational courses including hot pretzels and giant cookies!  I guess I won't go hungry!

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