{"id":79129,"date":"2017-03-24T22:51:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T02:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=79129"},"modified":"2017-03-24T21:07:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T01:07:45","slug":"mohawk-valley-rotary-donates-george-lewis-painting-to-ilion-free-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=79129","title":{"rendered":"Mohawk Valley Rotary donates George Lewis painting to Ilion Free Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=79130\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79130\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-79130\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heather-Travis-Roger-Oil-Painting-300x194.jpg?resize=300%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heather-Travis-Roger-Oil-Painting.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heather-Travis-Roger-Oil-Painting.jpg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heather-Travis-Roger-Oil-Painting.jpg?resize=900%2C583&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heather-Travis-Roger-Oil-Painting.jpg?resize=400%2C259&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heather-Travis-Roger-Oil-Painting.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heather-Travis-Roger-Oil-Painting.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Mohawk Valley Rotary club has donated a framed oil painting by George Lewis called &#8220;The Mohawk Valley Noses&#8221; to the Ilion Free Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>The painter George Lewis is a former Rotarian who now paints pictures using a palette knife and no brushes.<\/p>\n<p>George Lewis considers himself the \u201cWaterMan\u201d because he donates painting proceeds to raise money for clean water initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2006, Lewis has been able to help 2,000,000 people in 37 countries to have life-saving clean drinking water according to his website bio.<\/p>\n<p>Club member Roger Skinner contacted Lewis to paint a picture of the Mohawk Valley Noses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to use the Mohawk Valley Noses because I feel it represents our region&#8217;s history,&#8221; Skinner said. &#8220;The painting shows the beginning of the Mohawk Valley, looking out west into the valley, said Skinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This project is important to Skinner because the artist Lewis donates the cost of the painting to help humanitarian causes such as Rotary Global Water Grant and Polio Plus.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Mohawk Valley Rotary, contact us on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mohawk Valley Rotary club has donated a framed oil painting by George Lewis called &#8220;The Mohawk Valley Noses&#8221; to the Ilion Free Public Library. The painter George Lewis is a former Rotarian who now paints pictures using a palette knife and no brushes. George Lewis considers himself the \u201cWaterMan\u201d because he donates painting proceeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-kAh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Heather-Travis-Roger-Oil-Painting.jpg?fit=3024%2C1960&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}