On the gray, weathered boards of a modest, one-car garage on Columbus'' north side, Josh Meador left a telltale sign. Eighty years later, it remains: "Joshua Meador March 12, 1929," roughly scribed in white paint on an interior wall. Facing it, from the opposite side, is an impromptu painting of mountains and clouds, in the same pigment.
Meador would have been a teenager at the time, a personable junior at Stephen D. Lee High School.
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Jan Swoope is the Lifestyles Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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