Here’s an odd-looking pattern seen at a building somewhere in South Carolina. This will be a hard mystery. Where is it and what is it? Send your guess about the location of this photo to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our Sept. 27 mystery, “Downtown scene,” showed a mural in downtown McCormick, S.C., which several readers identified. Some said the mural was a little tricky because we blurred a clue. But we left one in there!
Congratulations to Tray Hunter of Bluffton; Holley Ulbrich of Clemson; David Taylor of Darlington; Charlie Davis of Aiken; Will McAbee and Jay Altman, both of Columbia; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Frank Wideman III of Greenwood; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; and Greg Levitis of Berkeley, Calif.
Graf noted that there’s always more to the story of Statehouse Report’s mystery photos. (Yes, a picture is worth more than 1,000 words!). He shared some extra sleuthing about the painting:
“The mural was done by local McCormick artist, Jeffery Callaham, who has an art studio in nearby Plum Branch and attended Bauder College in Atlanta, Ga. He said the mural work is untitled and it was funded by a state grant.
“The town wanted a work that embodied a railroad theme, since McCormick was a railroad stop town, though the Modoc Native American tribe put up a fierce resistance to the train invasion of the area and delayed McCormick’s rail stop. Jeffery said the trains still run through McCormick, but they are now freight versus passenger trains.
“I talked to the McCormick Library director, Paul Brown who said that Jeffery was very active in the community providing artwork and art classes for adults and children. After the mural on the Books on Main building was completed, Jeffery conducted an art class for kids at the library.
“The building mural depicts images of animals and people, so Jeffery gave a project to the kids to make up a story about things in the mural and they would make a graphic novel about it. After the project was finished, Jeffery painted four panels to go with the novel. Next week they will be mounted on the McCormick library’s walls for viewing with information about the kids’ stories.
“Paul said that Jeffery’s artwork is so well liked, that he was commissioned to do another building mural in Plum Branch and it is currently half finished. The local communities are looking at doing more of these murals to cover the walls of older buildings in the area. The director of the McCormick Arts Council of Katurah (MACK), where Jeffery also works, said that his murals are in the primitive style and very well-liked by the community.”
- Send us a mystery: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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I am from McCormick and Jeffrey is my cousin. His artwork is AWESOME!!!!