PORT ANGELES — Teddy Roosevelt will beam his toothy grin anew over downtown Port Angeles.
The 26th president’s visage peers from the clouds of “Olympic Visions,” which artist Tim Quinn will recreate this summer behind the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain at First and Laurel streets.
Quinn, joined by sign painter Jackson Smart and members of the Nor’wester Rotary Club, promised Friday to photograph the work so that he can start to reproduce it in June or July.
The current mural, painted on plywood, is peeling and losing chunks of caulking.
It will be stripped from the walls, which in turn will be sandblasted and primed.
Quinn, who lives in Sequim, will repaint “Olympic Visions” — complete with Teddy Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and 50 animals ranging from woodpeckers to elk — on the prepared concrete surface.
The first President Roosevelt issued a proclamation creating the Mount Olympus National Monument in 1909.
FDR signed the act that established Olympic National Park in 1938.
