The mural, along an alley off Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace, was painted in 2012 to mark the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s arrival in the Champlain Valley in 1609.
"City officials have begun the process for deciding what to do with a controversial downtown mural that has been called inaccurate, non-representative and racist. When Burlington activist Albert Petrarca spray painted the words 'Off the Wall' on the prominent Church Street mural meant to depict the history of Burlington last October, he likely sparked the events that led to Monday’s city council decision to have the city attorney report on the legal ramifications of its removal. Petrarca was making a political statement at the time, and through his act of vandalism was attempting to show the lack of racial and historical representation in the mural. ..."
VT Digger
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