In February Tim visited his mother, who lives in Milwaukie, a suburb of Portland, Oregon. I guess I’ve gotten him in the habit of looking for murals because he found this one (and another) around the city.
According to the Travel Oregon website:
“In 2020 the city unveiled the new Milwaukie Mural by artist Jeremy Okai Davis in Water Tower Park. The mural highlights and celebrates three important residents of Milwaukie: Ah Bing, Dorothy Hadley and Hurtis Hadley. Ah Bing was an orchard foreman who cultivated the popular Bing cherry in Milwaukie in the 1870s, a time in Oregon when anti-Asian sentiments against Chinese laborers ran rampant. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prevented him from returning to Oregon after visiting family in China.
“Dorothy and Hurtis Hadley purchased Milwaukie Pastry Kitchen in 1977, making it the first Black-owned bakery in the state during a time when Oregon’s Black population was less than 1% (it is now about 6%). Hurtis Hadley recognized that their first year of operation was the hardest as many of their white neighbors did not welcome or want ‘an accomplished Black couple in their midst, or Black people at all in the mostly white town’.”
Ibis rookery, somewhere in Victoria, posted earlier:
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