Chestnut Hill residents celebrate completion of new mural

November 12, 2012
  • <p><p>Bulldozers remove sand from a street near Brighton Beach on Long Beach Island. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Bulldozers remove sand from a street near Brighton Beach on Long Beach Island. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Sand is cleared from a street on Long Beach Island nearly two weeks after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Sand is cleared from a street on Long Beach Island nearly two weeks after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Hank Ludington digs out his home from about four feet of sand on Long Beach Island after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Hank Ludington digs out his home from about four feet of sand on Long Beach Island after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>A beachfront home is boarded up on Brighton Beach in Long Beach Island nearly two weeks after Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coastline. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>A beachfront home is boarded up on Brighton Beach in Long Beach Island nearly two weeks after Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coastline. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Trish Hosmer shows where the neighbors' house crashed into her living room leaving a gapping whole. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Trish Hosmer shows where the neighbors' house crashed into her living room leaving a gapping whole. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Mounds of sand and the refrigerator block the entrance way into the kitchen. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Mounds of sand and the refrigerator block the entrance way into the kitchen. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Cookbooks that were in the Hosmer's living room landed in the bathtub after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Cookbooks that were in the Hosmer's living room landed in the bathtub after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Trish Hosmer removes pieces of broken furniture from her living room after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Trish Hosmer removes pieces of broken furniture from her living room after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Hurricane Sandy's high winds and intense waters sent a neighbor's home crashing into the Hosner's residence at Brighton Beach on Long Beach Island. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Hurricane Sandy's high winds and intense waters sent a neighbor's home crashing into the Hosner's residence at Brighton Beach on Long Beach Island. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Houses with an orange notice on Long beach Island are slated for demolition. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Houses with an orange notice on Long beach Island are slated for demolition. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Neighbor and friend Lynn Carroll stops by the Hosmer's home to check out the damage from Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Neighbor and friend Lynn Carroll stops by the Hosmer's home to check out the damage from Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Trish and Chandler Hosmer returned to their Long Beach Island home (left) on Sunday to begin to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Trish and Chandler Hosmer returned to their Long Beach Island home (left) on Sunday to begin to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Chandler Hosmer and neighbor Chris Carroll carry a broken table from the Hosmer home in Brighton Beach on Long Beach Island. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Chandler Hosmer and neighbor Chris Carroll carry a broken table from the Hosmer home in Brighton Beach on Long Beach Island. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Slabs of pavement ripped from a road, washed up next to a beachfront house on Long Beach Island after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Slabs of pavement ripped from a road, washed up next to a beachfront house on Long Beach Island after Hurricane Sandy. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Hurricane Sandy swept planks of wood and a bicycle into the backyard of a home in Beach Haven on Long Beach Island. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Hurricane Sandy swept planks of wood and a bicycle into the backyard of a home in Beach Haven on Long Beach Island. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>Orlando Caceres (left) and Bill Callahan of PSEG dig through sand on Long Beach Island to disconnect a gas line of a beachfront property that will be demolished. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p></p>

    <p>Orlando Caceres (left) and Bill Callahan of PSEG dig through sand on Long Beach Island to disconnect a gas line of a beachfront property that will be demolished. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)</p>

  • <p><p>A choir sings a selection during the dedication ceremony on Saturday. (Bob O'Brien/for NewsWorks). </p></p>

    <p>A choir sings a selection during the dedication ceremony on Saturday. (Bob O'Brien/for NewsWorks). </p>

  • <p><p>Jane Golden, executive director of the <span class="st">Philadelphia<em> </em>Mural Arts Program, made remarks during the afternoon dedication along Germantown Avenue. (Bob O'Brien/for NewsWorks)</span></p></p>

    <p>Jane Golden, executive director of the <span class="st">Philadelphia<em> </em>Mural Arts Program, made remarks during the afternoon dedication along Germantown Avenue. (Bob O'Brien/for NewsWorks)</span></p>

  • <p><p>Karen Boyd-Rohde, owner of Bredenbeck's Bakery, worked for several years to make the mural a reality. (Bob O'Brien/for NewsWorks)</p></p>

    <p>Karen Boyd-Rohde, owner of Bredenbeck's Bakery, worked for several years to make the mural a reality. (Bob O'Brien/for NewsWorks)</p>

  • <p><p>Residents gathered outside of Bredenbeck's Bakery in Chestnut Hill on Saturday to admire the neighborhood's first mural. (Bob O'Brien/for NewsWorks)</p></p>

    <p>Residents gathered outside of Bredenbeck's Bakery in Chestnut Hill on Saturday to admire the neighborhood's first mural. (Bob O'Brien/for NewsWorks)</p>

A large crowd gathered around Bredenbeck’s Bakery in Chestnut Hill on Saturday to celebrate the completion of the neighborhood’s first-ever mural.

Residents joined Philadelphia Mural Arts officials at 8126 Germantown Ave. to take in the Wissahickon woods-inspired painting, the result of a four-year push spearheaded by Bredenbeck’s owner Karen Boyd-Rohde.

“I am just so happy that it came out the way it did,” said Boyd-Rohde after the dedication.

The mural, entitled “Wissahickon Crossing,” has the look of a watercolor painting and depicts a rushing creek with trees and other plants on either side. Veteran mural artist Anne Northrup, who is well-known for her landscapes, came up with the final concept with Boyd-Rhodes’ guidance.

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“We love this because of its reference to the Wissahickon,” Jane Golden, director of Mural Arts, said on Saturday.

Golden added that every mural in Philadelphia is important, saying, “We want beauty in our lives. We want meaning in our lives.”

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