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This page was created to help promote The Magical History Tour and the Walldogs festival coming to Ke It’s good for the local economy and a good selling point.

We will need to gather a large group of interested volunteers and donor dollars to bring this project to a reality in 2019. Peter Poanessa is a Walldog Veteran and has spoken highly about his wall dog experience and believes that he can get the Walldog community to visit Keene in 2019. Peter will work along side the municipal government while we navigate this process. FPA and others are quickly ga

thering to see how we can make this happen. In the 25 years Walldogs have been together they have painted about 750 murals. These are commemorative murals and tell the history of the towns they visit. They are done in a period style reminiscent of the heyday of big wall painting in the 1920's and 30's. The towns will usually make the weekend into a 3-4 day festival with a cool vibe as people watch the murals unfold. Music outside, Main Street closed, Restaurants out in the street Friday or Saturday night creates a safe environment for the entire community to enjoy. Once the festival is over the town is left with these attractive murals that tell the history of the area and drive tourism for years afterward as word spreads and people travel to Keene to see the murals. Summer is best time to paint these murals because of long hours of daylight for painting and best chance of good weather. Depending on how many murals are done Peter has estimated a budget of $120-150k for this to be a success. This event will be sure to bring in revenue for Keene as the Walldogs have a cult following.

06/12/2024

Today is NH gives!!!

Please consider donating to Arts Alive Monadnock I have been on the board for the last 4 years and I could not be more proud of the work we do for the arts in our region!!!

Some impacts that Arts Alive has had on my work is the support of The Walldogs Mural Festival and the support of Friends of Public Artand 17ROX which are projects I have started and working on the past 10 years!!

I’m ready to support Arts Alive on June 11, 2024 during NH Gives 2024. Learn more about Arts Alive and all the other organizations participating in NH Gives 2024.

08/17/2021

Hey you local Keene Walldogs .....

Mural opportunity in Keene! Let me know if you need help getting more information!

06/16/2020

It was a year ago this week. And The Magical History Tour is on Chronical tonight at 7pm channel 9. Great memories. https://www.facebook.com/nhchronicle/

New Hampshire Chronicle is a nightly magazine program about the people and places that make New Hampshire special.

05/15/2020

Good press

There are 16 Walldog murals painted on buildings in downtown Keene, creating a free outdoor gallery of beautiful public art.

05/14/2020

Relive the magic with a socially distant self-guided walking tour🙏

There are 16 Walldog murals painted on buildings in downtown Keene, creating a free outdoor gallery of beautiful public art.

01/31/2020

The Magical History Tour film is coming to NH PBS!

Posting the complete NH PBS schedule here in case you are interested in watching this wonderful Slate Roof Films production. ❤️

01/29/2020

Jennie's mural was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “Where Women Made History” website as one of 1,000 places in America where women made history.
Thanks for sharing the news Jenna Carroll.

By 1906, Jennie B. Powers was known nationally as The Woman Who Dares for her work in preventing cruelty to animals. As the Keene (NH) Humane Society agent from 1903-1936, she also became one of the state’s first female deputy sheriffs. Powers investigated hundreds of abuse cases annually and ofte...

01/27/2020

My Walking Tour of the Keene Murals by Andre

Andre is a big fan of the Walldogs and the murals they created for our community! He wanted to share his experience and send a big thank you to everyone that helped make it happen.

If you have a Magical History Tour experience you'd like to share reach out to us (send a fb message or email [email protected]).

01/20/2020

This week! Thursday night at 8pm the Magical History Tour film by Slate Roof Films will be airing on VT Public Television. See it on NH Public Television February 6th at 8pm.

01/13/2020

The Walldogs and the entire volunteer team of the Magical History Tour were recognized with the newly created Presidents Award at the annual Chamber of Commerce Gala.

"Keene chamber President and CEO Phil N. Suter announced a new President’s Award “to recognize something which has a broad, transformative and lasting effect.” - Keene Sentinel

What an amazing team!

01/03/2020

A group of 8th grade students at Keene Middle School took part in an extension project researching historical figures from the Keene area. They explored the figures behind the Walldogs murals and developed a profile for their chosen person highlighting their life and their impact on Keene in the past and today. Read the great work our students have done here: https://sites.google.com/s/10QgmoHzkaqQUzSpUfzf4buIGYc3I8rTC/p/1Zf-dmyiaWU_76ip4dkatOkwxYo-ATC0Q/edit

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