By Patricia A. Scheyer

NKyTribune reporter

Florence city council heard about an enormous, dramatic mural to be created on the side of Stringtown Restaurant.

“We have contracted with Christian Dallas, a famous muralist in our area, to do a 100-foot mural on the side of Stringtown Bar and Grill,” the city’s CAO Josh Hunt said. “This is to pay homage to the history of Main Street.”

He showed a rendering of the actual mural, saying this project has been in the planning for about a year.

“This is the third or fourth rendering,” Hunt explained. “There is a lot in this mural.The stagecoach represents that the city of Florence was a stop on the stagecoach route from Covington to Lexington. There is what looks like a white cat in the window that will be a skunk, because Florence was known as ‘

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