Reported by: Bill Price
Photographed by: Gary Hughes
Imagine a summer art project teaching you that Spring Grove – Village formerly Winton Place – was once home to the Tri-state's first amusement park more than 100 years ago?
The Chester Park amusement park joins Spring Grove Cemetery and other "Spring Grove Village" landmarks which teenagers included in a huge mural they're painting on Spring Grove Avenue, near Winton Road.
They're among 125 students who are painting nine murals throughout the city as summer jobs in the "MuralWorks" program.
MuralWorks participant Olivia Sunford tells 9News, "Just getting to learn to work as a group in the arts in really important, whether you go into community-centered arts, or like, a personal career. You get to see it both ways – you learn techniques of painting and stuff which could help you on your own."
Work on the Spring Grove Avenue mural and the eight other murals drawn around the city this year will end on Friday.
Another participant, Milan Vinks, says he especially liked the tulips they included in the Spring Grove mural because years ago, tulips were popular among early farmers in this Tri-state village.
If you'd like to see where others are located, go to the ArtWorks Cincinnati website for pictures, locations and more information about the MuralWorks program.
The old Chester Park was located where the current Cincinnati Water Works offices are now located on Spring Grove Avenue, just around the corner from the mural.
