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lights. “I didn't really want to do this,” he'd told me at the beginning of the day. “It's your
name, and you're signing off on someone else's interpretation. I paint in layers, sometimes
as many as fifty, and I knew I couldn't do that in this large a format.”
On the lawn, the muralists stand in groups, snapping photos, grinning a lot, dashing in-
side for some green for Jon so he can touch up the trees that got a little northern lights on
them. Gwendolyn says, “When we were working on the smaller dogs inside, they were,
like, oh no, they're just blobs. We stood them up outside and oh my god! They're dogs!”
In two weeks, the Iditarod mural will go up on the TelAlaska building at Fourth and
Jefferson. Next year, the Seward Mural Society will celebrate Seward's centennial by
painting another mural.
Beneath the Rockwell Kent mural in the harbor has been added a quotation from St.
Augustine. “And the people went there,” it reads, “and forgot themselves.”
Easy to do, walking around looking at murals on a sunny day in Seward.
