Marian Deputy turning old landmarks into art
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Marian Deputy recalls with fondness the sight of the two barns at the south end of Harrisburg.
The barns, cattle trading barns of C.V. Parker, were dismantled to make way for the new Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Deputy enjoys painting and pencil drawing and decided to sketch one of the barns using photos as a guide. She took one photo after the metal roof was dismantled and another that was published in the Oct. 26, 2006, Daily Register/Daily Journal.
The two sketches now hang on the wall of her apartment at Brookstone Estates, just a short distance from where the two barns were located.
"It had been here ever since I can remember. We moved to Harrisburg from Pope County in 1956. Whoever had it then had goats," Deputy said.
"I thought it was such an interesting thing right at the edge of Harrisburg. I hated to see it torn down."
Deputy and her husband, John, moved to town when John bought an interest in the Harrisburg Mill and Elevator Company. He worked there and then bought a trucking business from Orvil Dean along with Otis Reynolds and Hilliary Humm. John worked there until he retired while Deputy worked in the Harrisburg school district until 1983.
Deputy began as a teaching aid in kindergarten at Logan School under Principal Fred Bramlet. Logan School was at what is now East Side School.
She worked in the Harrisburg High School media center, became a secretary at Bayliss School in Gaskins City and then was secretary at Independence Grade School in Mitchellsville until her retirement.
Deputy painted throughout her career and became more involved in painting and quilting upon her retirement.
Her husband had artistic talent of a different sort. John was a skilled craftsman who built grandfather clocks, bookcases, cabinets, nightstands, quilt racks and -- Deputy's pride and joy -- a rocking cradle for their first great-granddaughter, Ashley Monferdini.
John died in June of this year and Deputy is grateful for the company at Brookstone Estates.
"Especially with John gone, I'm lonesome enough as it is. It would have been a lot worse if I'd been in a house by myself," Deputy said.
She is hoping for more photos of local landmarks to continue to her painting and sketching.
-- DeNeal receives e-mail at bdeneal@yourclearwave.com.
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