Determined to honor McCollum Hall’s history, Shifrin and the Mural Society worked with the City of Fort Myers and the Community Redevelopment Agency to create murals depicting the hall’s legacy. Using vintage photographs, they painted scenes from its heyday onto its walls, reintroducing the community to its rich past.
One of the murals even sparked a personal connection—a woman recognized herself in one of the historic images and visited the site to take a picture in front of it, linking the past to the present in a powerful way.
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