Vandals spray paint Franklin Street mural

Sherril Koroluk of the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill says someone has "tagged" or just plain vandalized Michael Brown's Handprints Mural on the side of 422 W. Franklin St. (Chapel Hill Cleaners).

"I am not sure if the spray painted CDU66  H6C is a gang related tag or just gibberish," she writes. 

Brown painted the mural in 1990 with the help of local elementary school students. Here's what he told us about the project:

I was struggling for an idea when an old childhood memory came to
me. I used to enjoy walking past Sloan’s Drug Store because you could
still see some faded Carolina blue hand prints put there by students
after Carolina’s 1957 National Championship win. Eureka! Even a first-grader can make a handprint

Brown is about to start restoring the Blue Steeple Mural on the back wall of 109 E. Franklin St. (still my favorite). The society hopes to have enough money left over to now help pay for the restoration of the Handprints mural.

The Painted Walls Project, which has been raising funds to restore the murals, still needs donations to pay for the restorations. The project is a joint effort by the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill, the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership and the Chapel Hill Historical Society.

Click here to find out how you can help.