This mural (6’3″ x 4’7″) is painted by Joe Kilday on the backside of the Bohannon Building. The scene depicts Sallie Rose Bohannon, holding the Crown of Thorns Quilt made by her mother, Bettye Howell. Sallie, an early prominent businesswoman, was the first of five generations of the Bohannon family to operate a business downtown. The building is still owned by the same family today. Miss Sally Bohannon, one of the richest women in Greeneville in the 1920s, moved here with her widowed mother to be near several uncles who were local potters. After teaching ceramic painting at Tusculum College, she opened a millinery store that sold hats and ready-to-wear piece goods that she purchased in New York.
The mural was sponsored by the Tennessee Arts Commission’s FY13 Arts Build Communities grant and was managed by Greene County Heritage Trust.
