Young Artist’s Patriotic Mural Brightens Atmosphere At Personal Care Home

WILKES-BARRE — The Marines who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II are here, immortalized in their historic moment from 1945. So are the sailor and nurse who enjoyed a dramatic kiss in the street when they knew World War II was over. The Statue of Liberty raises her lamp high, the Washington Monument gleams and an eagle soars overhead — all in a detailed mural 25-year-old artist Jay Garcia, of Sugar Notch, has painted on the wall of the community room at North Penn Manor, a personal care home on New Sherman Street. “He’s great,” resident Harry Croop, 78, said of the artist. “I enjoyed watching him paint,” said Regina Manley, 66.