[upbeat guitar music] Sanford has its own mural trail that highlights some of the town's notable citizens and events and right now I'm here with Wendy Bryan of the Sanford Tourism Development Authority.

Wendy, tell me how did the mural trail get started?

- Well, in 2015, we have a wonderful historic planner, Liz Whitmore, who looked at our downtown and saw all of our beautiful brick buildings and had a vision that they could be really a beautiful art display and showcase our history in town so she started with one building and here we are now with 15 murals.

- Well, she was right and they are beautiful, especially this one right here, tell me about this one.

- [Wendy] This is the Wings mural, it was painted by artist, Chris Dalton, and it's our number one most Instagramable spot located in Charlie Watson Lane, which is a total art alley including some interactive art as well.

- I love it.

Wendy, if somebody wants to get started on a mural trail where do they go?

- Well, there are so many ways to get involved.

First of all, every mural has its own Otocast narration that tells you what the mural is.

So if you're actually at the mural you can just take your own self-guided tour.

We also have a visitors guide that shows you all the murals with directions and a brochure also at the Visitor Center, so you can interact in multiple ways and we know it's one of the number one reasons people find us online, is because of our mural trail.

- So this is actually a destination mural trail?

- This is a destination mural trail.

We've had people blog, vlog, and write about it and we are very proud of all of our murals.

- Wow, sounds like fun, let's go see more.

- Follow me.

- Oh, so this isn't really a mural, but it is a piece of art, right?

- It is, it's interactive art.

We have several installations around the county and it was first inspired by a piece that was after Hurricane Katrina for people to share their experiences and now we have one in Sanford and our residents and visitors love to come and share their dreams, and we'd love for you to write on it while you're here as well.

- Oh, well, I've got a dream, let's see here.

[chalk clunking on chalkboard] [Deborah laughing] - Awesome, nice.

- Wendy showed me other murals honoring athletes, visionaries, artists, and war heroes.

Wendy, what can you tell me about this mural?

- This mural is, Silent Wings, and it honors three of our Glider pilots from World War II I'm happy to report returned home safely at the end of the war and were very, very brave service members.

- Well I just love the detail in their faces.

- [Wendy] It's beautiful and muralist, Scott Nurkin, painted this mural.

We're very proud of the work and also to honor our service members.

- Wow, Wendy, this one is spectacular.

- This is an interactive art piece on our actual mural trail, it's called, Bringing the Arts Together, and it celebrates the 50-year heritage of art in Sanford and you can give it a spin.

- Ooo.

[Deborah laughing] I'm not that strong am I?

[both laughing] What a great way to wrap up the Sanford Mural Trail.

- You did great.

- $100!

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