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[Several images of Edinburgh signs and art and people around them. Shift to a view of an Edinburgh resident named Linda Holtz Storie, who is speaking. Behind her is a mural on a city building with the name of the town.] 

Linda: This is an exciting day for our town. And we get to celebrate the eclipse with all of our townspeople. And the neatest thing is that we have this mural being painted on the wall behind me and it will be here forever. 

[Sped up footage of people painting the mural. Close up shots of children helping to paint cut to speaker Sarabeth Drybread, the Community Development Director of Edinburgh.]

Sarabeth: To see, you know, a two-year-old be able to make their mark on this and think that when they’re a teenager, when they’re a young adult, to be able to look back at this and say, “I helped paint that,” is really a remarkable thing for the community 

[Camera pans downward to the mural, which has peony flowers on either side of Edinburgh. Several additional shots of families painting at the mural.] 

Sarabeth: We had this piece commissioned, and then we purposely left the state flower, the peony, to where the community can come in today and paint that in. So we wanted it to where people, it was almost a finished product, where people could get their photo taken in front of Edinburgh, and then we also wanted the community to be able to make their mark and help complete the piece. 

[A little girl paints the mural. Cut to muralist Chelsea Liberati looking at the mural.]

Chelsie: Hey, I’m Chelsie Liberati. I am the muralist here for the Edinburgh Eclipse Day. It’s really great to have the community come out and help give them an opportunity to have some ownership and some pride in their space. Everybody’s so excited to put their hands to work and see what they can do. 

[Pan across the mural. Cut to Leah Roy, a visitor to Edinburgh from Salem, North Carolina.] 

Leah: We were really excited to come see the mural, we thought it would be finished. We didn’t know we were going to get a chance to be a part of it. It’s really cool to feel like we had a tiny little hand in making the event happen. 

[More shots of families painting parts of the mural.] 

Linda: The whole town, anybody who wants to touch the mural or paint any part of it. That’s exciting to me that it’s not just one person, but the community of people and also people from out of town. 

[Shot of visitor Michael Allen standing in front of the mural.] 

Michael: I think this is going to be a real sweet thing for the kids because they’re always going to remember that they painted this no matter how old they get. 

[A woman helps a little girl paint the mural.] 

Little girl: I did it. 

Woman: Go ahead. 

[Cut to two children, Kyla and Kassie Burton standing together speaking and laughing.]

Kyla: It was, like, fun to paint on the wall, and it’s gonna be here forever. It was good. [In response to her sister giggling] I’m shy. 

[Different shots of the city, including a river, houses, and overhead views of city streets. It cuts to Edinburgh resident Crissy Riley standing in front of the mural.] 

Crissy: Edinburgh is home. This community means the world to me. They come together when you don’t expect it just like today, doing the mural, which is wonderful. These are all the important things. This is our history. This is preserving our legacy and our history while doing something for the future. 

[Cuts back to Sarabeth speaking. For each letter she mentions, a shot of the landmark is shown.] 

Sarabeth: We’ve got nine letters in Edinburgh and each represents an incredible, landmark and historic event in the community. And so we’ve got our downtown. We’ve got the entrance into our community. We’ve got the Blue River Dam, which we’re also featuring at the community center with the Blue River Dam gallery. We’ve got the Veneer. We were the veneer capitol, the world at one point. Veneer is really what literally built this community from the ground up. And so we’ve got that depicted, got our golf course. We’ve got one of our beautiful churches, historic churches, Holy Trinity, which is up on School Hill. And then, you know, we’re Lancers. We’re home of the Lancers, and so we love our sports teams here. So we’ve got our football depicted and then last with the eclipse. I mean, this is such an historic moment for the community, so that had to be in there.

[Close up on the eclipse painted in the H of the Edinburgh mural. Different angles of the mural and people painting it are shown throughout the multiple speakers.] 

Chelsea: It’s bringing everyone together. It’s given them the shared experience, a happy memory. So it’s a perfect day. 

Crissy: The Edinburgh really stands out. It’s really bright. You know, it’s a postcard that you want on the side of the wall. 

Michael: It’s a great way to show the personality of a town. 

Linda: It’s exciting to come by the building and just like, Oh, I helped do that. And that’s really cool. 

Sarabeth: I mean, we are all just elated in Central Indiana right now. It’s been incredible to see people from Wisconsin and Idaho and Kentucky that have been able to literally make their mark here in Edinburgh and celebrate the eclipse with us. 

[Overhead drone shots of Edinburgh’s streets. A final zoom on the mural fades to black.]