’Header uses ‘epic street art’ to strengthen communities

bringing the total to nearly $175,000.

Both Buckey and the School Committee have agreed to release one another from any legal claims they may have. However, that release will be voided if either side violates the mutual non-disparagement clause in the agreement.

HIstORY Town charts course for Old Burial Hill restoration

Funding, commitments secured for Lost at Sea Monument, Glover’s tomb, 10 grave markers

BY WILLIAM J. DOWD

Old Burial Hill is set for a restoration after a comprehensive survey revealed deteriorating and damaged monuments, grave markers and tombs.

The assessment by monument conservator Ivan Myjer from Building and Monument Conservation pinpointed 17 headstones, five footstones and 166 grave markers across the storied burial ground that require attention. Myjer’s survey suggests nearly $75,000 worth of restoration and conservation work.

The immediate focus will center on the Lost at Sea Monument, colloquially known as the Fishermen’s Monument, Gen. John Glover’s tomb and about 10 other grave markers, Town Planner Becky Cutting said.

“We received a grant to do the initial master plan, then a grant for the priorityone markers that were identified from the Massachusetts Historical Commission Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund grant program,” Cutting said. “We also plan to look for some others.”

BY LEIGH BLANDER

Sitting at the back of a cavernous former machine shop in downtown Lynn, Al Wilson talks about two of his favorite things — art and soccer — and how they both build community.

“For me, soccer is a great connector,” he says. “It’s the world sport. Art is another connector, by creating shared stories.”

Wilson, who lives and plays over-40 soccer in Marblehead, was playing in Lynn in 2016 when he made new friends and started attending community meetings in the city.

“They were talking about helping the downtown area by adding more lighting,” he remembers.

That was the beginning of Beyond Walls, Wilson’s nonprofit that creates public art and experiences. It is based in that old machine shop on Mount Vernon Street.

“We hung 11 vintage pieces of neon artwork in spring 2017 to better light

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Lynn’s downtown streetscape,” he said.

A few months later, Beyond Walls installed 16,000 square feet of colorful LED lighting at three Lynn underpasses.

The team’s mission is to “activate spaces to strengthen communities.”

It works in gateway cities, which Wilson defines as “former industrial cities with underutilized