The murals began to flake and take on their first graffiti. "The last few years it's been sort of embarrassing," Bachelder says. "I kind of wanted to put it out of its misery."
The murals will disappear soon enough. But for now, even the nicked-up version of the project carries a certain appeal. On a recent afternoon, Rick "Doc" Folkes, an East Providence man taking a photography class at Community College of Rhode Island, pulled over to line up a shot of the soon-to-be-destroyed southern wall.
"We're not supposed to take anything Hallmark," he explained, "nothing schmaltzy."
Wonderful Wickenden fit the bill.
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