Who says you can’t go home?
The Aram Public Library plans to unveil on Aug. 27 a portrait painting by former Delavan artist William Thorne. the piece, donated by the Wallis family of Philadelphia, is a portrait of another former Delavan resident, Alice Sumner Fisher.
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