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History Bites | These Walls Can Talk: The Often Untold, Mostly Misunderstood, and Occasionally Amusing Story of Connecticut’s New Deal Post Office Murals
History Bites | These Walls Can Talk: The Often Untold, Mostly Misunderstood, and Occasionally Amusing Story of Connecticut’s New Deal Post Office Murals
The walls of your local post office have a story to tell. Between 1934 and 1943 the federal government placed over forty murals on the walls of twenty-three Connecticut post offices, including six in Fairfield County. For the last eighty years, the murals have been overlooked, misunderstood, and misinterpreted. Why are they there? Who put […]