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Christo's Running Fence Memorial & Post Office Mural 🎨

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    1. Valley Ford – Tomales loop from Bloomfield

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    April 27, 2020

    In 1976, after a long process, Christo’s large-scale artwork “Running Fence” was installed over 24.5 miles of Sonoma and Marin farmland. He enlisted 59 families whose properties fell within the proposed route of the fence. The ranchers and farmers weren’t merely acquiescent, however; they had become committed partisans for the project: a fence of fabric running sinuously across the land from Highway 101 to the sea. It would be about 25 miles long and almost 20 feet high. A discreet monument marking that event stands at the Valley Ford post office, a single, corroded metal pole 18 feet high, with a small commemorative plaque at its base. It was at this spot that “Running Fence” came through, completed on Sept. 10, 1976. sonomamag.com/40-years-later-christos-running-fence-in-sonoma-marin

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