Welcome to the city, anew
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, June 4, 2002
Artist Benny Graeff of Dafford Murals measures the distance between the smoke stacks of the steamboat Natchez in a copy of an old photograph Monday at City Front. The steamboat will be part of the detail in the welcome sign being painted by artist Robert Dafford and his staff on the west side of the flood wall at City Front. The sign reading “Welcome to the City of Vicksburg” is about 61 feet long and 8 feet inches high. Graeff said the sign should be completed by Friday. Dafford and his staff completed their first Vicksburg mural on the opposite side of the wall in mid-April.(The Vicksburg Post/C. TODD SHERMAN)