Livingston County hopes to draw people with huge public art effort featuring 9 murals

Democrat & Chronicle

Like your vegetables large, really large, maybe 30 feet high? You better head south of Rochester to Lima in Livingston County.

And maybe you’d prefer a strawberry or raspberry that would take a summer to eat, a celery stalk that could pass for a tree. Lima’s your place, as well.

These vivid vegetables and fruits and others, too, make up a magnificent mural just painted by Abigail Lee Penfold on the wall of JonnyB’s Custom BBQ on Rochester Street in downtown Lima.

Her creation is one of nine murals spread across nine villages in Livingston County as part of the LivCoWalls Mural Festival, an extraordinary effort on behalf of public art.

Penfold designed her mural, which is titled The Farmers’ Spectrum, as a way of honoring Lima’s deep connection to agriculture.