That Fellow Built My House!

Sheila and I were a politicking team yeaterday. We got our list of Democratic voters. Sheila drove and I hopped out at each house or apartment to ring the doorbell and talk to, or leave a note for, each voter. Our goal was to remind folks to vote on Tuesday the 24th and to ask them to please vote for our friend, Wendy Davis, to represent Northwest Georgia in Congress. 

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Time out to say: Wendy has a long heritage in our city and region. She has been an outstanding City Commissioner. She is smart, honest, articulate, determined, open, cooperative, patriotic -- all the things that the current 14th District US Representative is NOT. So please don't leave the voting to the fired up fringe... we need the sensible middle to GO TO THE POLLS! Thank you!

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Now, back to this post.

In one apartment building on Broad, a stone's throw from the spot where our founders first met to tlak about building a city here, I saw this large oil painting I've never seen before. These are our city's founders. The balding fellow in the middle is Daniel Mitchell.  He's the fellow who put the name "Rome" in the hat that day, AND also laid out the city street plan -- see his map on the wall behind them?! AND he, late in his life in 1869, built MY house here on the banks of the Oostanaula.

Does anyone know the history of the painting? It is well done and looks fairly recent.