Nancy Scott has been the lead artist in creating the fish ladder mural. Here, she writes, in her own words, the story behind the project.

On Wednesday, April 25, the staff from Spindleworks took a few peers to the fishway near the Fort Andross Mill to wipe down the walls. And it started to rain when we were at the fishway. The rain was coming down very hard. It was not a very good day to be outside in the pouring rain at the fishway.

I also took some pictures of the fishway. There was a brown trout swimming backwards in the fishway and he was not very big. He had some little brown spots on his back.

I was soaked from head to toe and I don’t want to be out in the rain I rather stay inside where it is nice and warm to get myself out of the pouring rain. I gets rather cold outside when it is raining. I don’t want to get my feet wet from the rain.

Sometime in June, we are going to have an art show at the Fort Andross and its is going to be inside the Mill at Frontier. It might be the second Friday and it is also the night that we have our 2nd Friday Art Walk in Brunswick.

I started this project this winter of 2018 (the fishway was closed during the winter. There were no fish swimming against the current). I met Samantha and Pat at the fishway. It was quite cold and wintery day and the snow was coming down very hard and it was not a very good day to be out in the cold wintry day. We are going to try this spring to go to the fishway. The weather was not very good and it was quite cold and snowy.

The staff at Spindleworks is going to help me making a collage out of my photos. I am going to use the photos make a collage for the art show in June when the weather cooperates. The staff from Spindleworks took me to the hardware store to pick out some paint colors for the fishway project