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  • Vermont Agriculture Commissioner Roger Allbee stands by the newly returned Norman Rockwell photo mural on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, in Montpelier, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

    Norman Rockwell photo mural back where it belongs

    A photographic mural by artist Norman Rockwell has been returned to its former home in Vermont's capital, drawing a close to a yearlong dispute between state officials and a museum where it hung for 23 years.

  • Vermont Agriculture Commissioner Roger Allbee stands by the newly-returned Norman Rockwell photo mural on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 in Montpelier, Vt. The photographic mural of a maple sugar making scene by artist Norman Rockwell is hanging again in a hall of the Vermont Department of Agriculture. Rockwell created the black and white image of a sugar house with smoke coming from its chimney with people checking sap buckets after becoming friends with Henry Fairfax Ayers, once the chairman of the Vermont Sugar Makers Association.The mural, created in the late 1940s, was moved to the Rockwell Museum in Rutland in 1987 while the building was undergoing renovations.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

    Norman Rockwell photo mural back where it belongs

    A photographic mural by artist Norman Rockwell has been returned to its former home in Vermont's capital, drawing a close to a yearlong dispute between state officials and a museum where it hung for 23 years.

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  • "We had to dig and find every archive we could, because we had it so long. Having something that's the centerpoint of a collection for 23 years, it's something that has to be researched. That was the only reluctance we had. We thought it was a tragedy because we've grown such ties to it," she said.

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  • "It's not like we've had it for a couple of years. We've had it for 23 years. You'd walk into the museum and boom, it was what you saw, along with a write-up about the mural and the reasons behind it and the man it was gifted to," she said.

    Norman Rockwell photo mural back where it belongs →

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