Picture Hanging

During the past 40 years that our Executive Director has been leading the Passaic River Coalition, she has collected quite a few pictures, paintings, and cartoons that have a connection to our organization. One of them finally got hung up last week.

Ella says this is one of her favorite paintings. On a trip to England, she and her husband commissioned an artist to paint a Great Blue Heron. To many river advocates, the Great Blue Heron is a symbol of healthy waterways.

Decorating Willow Hall with our art collection has proved a bit more difficult than initially expected. (But really, hasn't everything here gone that way?) Almost every room in the house is lined with beautiful crown molding. We originally thought we could hang our pictures with fishing line from this molding, museum style. It turns out the crown moldings are made of plaster and that would have been a very bad idea.

Instead we'll be using nails to hang the picture up the old fashioned way. But even this will have be done very carefully so as not to damage the original plaster walls.