#544 Placerville 2021 #544

by William Lum

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15.000 x 11.000 inches

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#544 Placerville 2021 #544

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William Lum

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Painting - Casein On Paper

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Despite the pandemic, Placerville, California, is bustling with tourists on the weekends. What’s different about this 2021 late winter view down Main Street are the new tents taking up parking spaces. The tents allow outdoor dining when the ever-changing COVID-19 rules permit it and they are necessary for the restaurants to survive when indoor dining is banned. Some businesses have closed permanently but left their tents up. Creating a new problem which the Placerville City leaders have addressed this March by passing a new rule. If you haven’t used the tent for a week, you have to take it down, except if the businesses are temporarily closed for COVID-19 quarantines.

The old bell tower is the iconic symbol for Hang Town that was here long before COVID-19 and will be around after the tents will eventually disappear in the non-COVID future. Placerville suffered three fires in 1856 which destroyed a good portion of the business section. The citizens realized the need for an alarm system to quickly call their volunteer fire department, so a bell was ordered from England to serve their purpose. Cast in 1860, it arrived in Placerville in 1865 and the City gave approval to place it in a tower on the Plaza. The bell tower has watched most of Placerville's history pass beneath it and now that includes COVID dining tents.

This 11” X 15” casein painting (used thin like watercolor) was done on Kiliminjaro, 300 lb, cold press watercolor paper.

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March 19th, 2021

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