EPISODE · Aug 10, 2026 · 13 MIN
The story behind Discovery Depot's new mural
from Galesburg's Morning News · host WGIL 93.7 FM - 1400 AM
A photo found in the basement of a downtown Galesburg store is now a 5-by-8-foot mural hanging at Discovery Depot Children's Museum, 128 S. Chambers St. Denise Gerstenberger, the museum's executive director; her husband Steve Gerstenberger, a longtime board member; and Galesburg artist Dusty Scott joined Galesburg's Morning News on Monday, Aug. 10, to talk about the mural, commissioned to mark Discovery Depot's 30th anniversary. They talked about: The building's history as a Meadow Gold Dairy, and what's still preserved from that era today How a 2013 basement discovery turned into a museum centerpiece Dusty Scott's process for finishing an incomplete, decades-old photograph Why the mural is painted in sepia tone instead of black and white How Scott's daughter, Lucy, contributed her own section of the painting Related story: A basement photo becomes a mural — the story behind Discovery Depot's newest piece 🎧 Subscribe to Galesburg's Morning News: Apple Podcasts | Spotify
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A photo found in the basement of a downtown Galesburg store is now a 5-by-8-foot mural hanging at Discovery Depot Children's Museum, 128 S. Chambers St. Denise Gerstenberger, the museum's executive director; her husband Steve Gerstenberger, a longtime b
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