Image caption: Volunteer painters stand in front of the incomplete mural, Poorhouse Lock 56, on the day PBS personality Darely Newman of Travels with Darley came to help paint the mural on July 29, 2021. From left to right: Mark De Cracker, Cory Reynolds, Christina Lauber, Darely Newman, Lisa Saunders, Betty Rose Chardeen and daughter, Natalie Rose Chardeen. (Photograph by Christine Worth and supplied by Mark De Cracker.)
The travel show is now airing on TV and on the JOURNY website:
New York’s Empire State Trail - "Travel along New York’s Empire State Trail, which stretches from New York City to the Canadian Border with host Darley Newman. Hike and bike the trail, stopping in small towns and big cities for craft beer, local arts and culture." Watch: https://journy.tv/watch/travels-with-darley/new-yorks-empire-state-trail/
About 10.35 minutes into the show, host Darley Newman and Mark De Cracker of Mural Mania are seen walking the Erie Canalway Trail in Newark, New York, where Mark tells Darley how the murals seen along the Trail preserve the history of the Canal. Then Darley visits a studio in nearby Lyons where the Poorhouse Lock 56 mural, seen above, is being painted by artist and Iraq war veteran, Cory Reynolds, along with several other volunteers in July 2021. Cory gives Darley some paint and a brush and the chance to paint a little spot on it, though she does worry about messing it up. Cory explains how he finds painting murals therapeutic. He says, "I really enjoy doing it because I have PTSD. I come in here when my mind starts to wander and it just kind of relaxes me....If you got a lot going on in the real world, you can come in here and you can paint - put yourself in a little spot and that's your little spot that you have to worry about, nothing else. I'm glad to have you putting a little spot on there because that's one spot I don't have to worry about and I can move on..."
More about the Poorhouse Lock 56 mural in the Finger Lakes Times: https://www.
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