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The Church Street Marketplace Spruces Up With a New Mural

About a year ago, Leunig’s Bistro co-owner Robert Fuller was passing through Alabama on his BMW motorcycle en route to Florida when he came on the town of Dothan. The self-described Peanut Capital of the World, Dothan is also famous for its dozen or so murals depicting notable local personages and scenes from town history.

As one of many highway travelers who would never have visited Dothan if not for its murals, Fuller became inspired to endow Burlington with a similar tourist attraction. He decided to seed an ambitious mural project on the Church Street Marketplace with a $10,000 donation.

“Robert Fuller is the visionary behind this whole thing,” says Québec artist Pierre Hardy , who is now nearing completion of the trompe l’oeil extravaganza that will transform the alleyway alongside Banana Republic leading to the Marketplace parking garage. Fuller invested in Hardy’s mural, titled “Everyone Loves a Parade!,” at a point when the project’s overseers were having trouble persuading sponsors to cover its $80,000 cost.

“It was really hard to present it to people without them seeing what it actually looked like,” says Church Street Marketplace director Ron Redmond . “It wasn’t until January, when you could see clearly what Pierre was doing, that people got it.” The fundraising goal has now been reached, Redmond reports.

Even in its current form — 4-by-8-foot panels leaning against the walls of an Essex garage — Hardy’s work has the visual power to persuade skeptics. And the work is likely to engage shoppers and strollers. Colorful and hyperrealistic, the mural unspools an eclectic cast of major and minor Vermont celebrities.

Theme Parks: Adventure Land Theme Park, Alabama

The state of Alabama is located in the United States, from its border with Alabama, Mississippi to the west, Georgia to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Florida, south, and Tennessee in the north. It was estimated that there were4.6 million residents by the year 2006. There are many tourist places you can visit places like Anniston, Fairhope, Gulf Shores, Montgomery, Huntsville, Decatur, Mobile, Dauphin Island and much more. One of the most visited tourist destinations is the Adventure Land theme park in Dothan, AL. There are two 18-hole miniature golf.One can enjoy a Go-Kart track with curves and high-style Indy Kart designed for children and adults. We can also benefit batting cages, a ride on boats and enjoy the arcade Bumber and may seize the lower bar, hold for dear life and mount a choice of three exciting rollercoaster or race of a formula one car. One can even try to hand the ball to the water Wars, if he feels hungry can move the snack bar is located nearby. It's a fun place to be less, where you can enjoy with friends and families, people of all ages enjoy here.

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