We continue to collect images for an exciting exhibition at the Ferguson Museum. And we invite you to dig into your archives for old photos of your family with one of our cherished IPP island murals.
Maybe as IPP campers, they helped paint or posed with one of the murals, such as the cat and dog behind the Toppers bench, the bike parts mural that used to live on the bowling alley, the ferry boats over the lifejacket box on the Munnatucket or freight building, the sea creatures or rainbow on the F.I. Utility Co. building across from Dock Beach?
I began collaborating with the children of the Island Peoples Project in the summer of 1990. Our first mural, created from donated paint and materials, depicted huge waves on the three sisters’ sea wall.
If you have any photos of these murals or your family members or friends working on them, please share them along with the year they were taken (names may not be used).
You can email the images to me at sarahupson67@gmail.com or mail them to 106 Sanfordtown Road, Redding, CT 06896. I’d love to hear from you—your contributions would mean so much to me and the Ferguson Museum!
Thank you,
Sarah Upson
