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This July, muralists from Greater Boston and places around the world congregated in Lynn, on Massachusetts' North Shore, to bring the industrial town's brick walls to life. In just 10 days, 15 new murals popped up downtown - all within walking distance - during the Beyond Walls Mural Festival.

We went to go check them out - and you should too ( use this handy map). Here's a look at the artists and their works:

New York City-based artists Alison Perez (aka Miss Zukie) and John Paul O'Grodnick ( JPO) collaborated on this wall in Lynn's City Hall Square. The cartoon creatures are a signature of Miss Zukie and you can see JPO's style in the forms that dominate the upper half of the mural.

Lynn natives Temp and Relm cut their teeth in graffiti writing at an early age, throwing up tags around the city. If you look over to the left end of the mural, you could see "Lynn, Lynn..." written in script ( click image to enlarge) - a hat tip to the rhyme "Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin" that has dogged the city and is something the festival organizers want these murals to counteract.

Canadian artist known as FONKi is big in Montreal's contemporary graffiti scene. His parents were refugees of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia (something he goes to the country to confront in the 2015 documentary "The Roots Remain"). A lot of his art touches on immigrants and his own heritage.

You might recognize the big-eyed little creatures in this mural. They're a common theme in Cambridge-based painter Caleb Neelon's work, inspired by pioneer children's book illustrator Ed Emberley, who is based in Ipswich. (You can see them pop up in Neelon's murals in Allston, Cambridge, Somerville, Chelsea, Worcester and around the world.) Artist Lena McCarthy, a Wayland native, helped Neelon with this mural.

New York City artist Cey Adams emerged in the graffiti scene in the late '70s. He went on to become the founding creative director of Def Jam Recordings and is credited with shaping hip-hop design. According to The Daily Item in Lynn, this mural was inspired by the lyrics of Boston-native and disco legend Donna Summer.

Right across the tree-covered sidewalk from Cey Adams' wall, Australian artist Georgia Hill painted the words "Not Long Now." You could usually spot a Hill wall thanks to the black and white, almost yin-yang contrast and the bold type face.

Boston-born artist Cedric "Vise" Douglas is not only an active participant in the world of local street art, he's also an activist who works to draw in new artists. You may have seen his UP Truck (short for Dorchester's Uphams Corner) around the city. It's a mobile art center that aims to engage Boston's under-served communities in creative pursuits.

Bruce Orr, in addition to working as an illustrator, painter and co-founder of a puppetry organization focused on reducing waste, is an art therapist. The Italian-born, Delaware-raised artist partnered with the Lynn organization Raw Art Works, which engages at-risk kids in art. Raw Art's team of male teens specializing in public art, Good 2 Go, helped Orr on this wall.

Puerto Rican artist David "Don Rimx" Sepulveda painted this wall with symbols connected to Caribbean, African and Latino culture. He combined brick and wood on the wall to bring elements of nature and city together.

Nicole Salgar and Chuck Berrett (NS/CB) painted their wall with a portrait of a Wampanoag woman aiming a bow and arrow. Salgar is from Miami, while Berrett is from New York City by way of Salt Lake City.

Evaristo Angurria painted this portrait of a Dominican woman in curlers. Hailing from the Dominican Republic, Angurria spent much of his career in the advertising and graphic design world.

North Shore native Chris "Tallboy" Coulon (a Lynn native) and Brian Denahy (of Swampscott) got their start painting around Lynn. You've got to crane your neck a bit to see this gorilla-looking creature, high atop the other buildings. Here's a full look at the mural from the roof of a building nearby.

Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez was born in Mexico and raised in Texas. His art tends to draw heavily from his Mexican heritage and the nation's folklore.

Puerto Rican artist David Zayas has painted all over the world, often creating elaborate portraits and images of animals. He calls this one "The Protector." His mural is a couple buildings in front of Marka27's wall, and from a distance, you could see petals from Marka27's mural falling into the rooster in Zayas' piece.

Team Rekloos is made up of locals Brian Life, Brand Rockwell and Raodee. Life is from Dorchester, Rockwell is based in Quincy and Raodee is from Cambridge.
If you go, here's a map from Beyond Walls that could help you find them all:

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Take A Look At 15 New Murals Splashed On Downtown Lynn's Brick Walls

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This July, muralists from Greater Boston and places around the world congregated in Lynn, on Massachusetts' North Shore, to bring the industrial town's brick walls to life. In just 10 days, 15 new murals popped up downtown - all within walking distance - during the Beyond Walls Mural Festival.

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The U.S. Navy evacuated some 5,000 service members from its Key West air station Sept. 6 as National Guard troops in the path of Hurricane Irma prepared to respond to the massive storm threatening American territory in the Caribbean and the Florida mainland, according to defense officials.

Nearly 14,000 National Guardsmen in Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico had been alerted by Wednesday morning to prepare to respond as Irma beared down on the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, said Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. Irma is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and boasts sustained winds of 185 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

The National Hurricane Center described Hurricane Irma as "life-threatening" and "potentially catastrophic" and urged people in its path to "rush" to prepare for impact. It had issued hurricane warnings for both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgins Island by the morning of Sept. 6. The storm could reach Cuba, including the United States' Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, by Sept. 8 and could still be a Category 5 storm, according to the Center.

The U.S. Navy has ordered military personnel at Guantanamo to shelter in place.

In Florida, where the storm could hit this weekend, Governor Rick Scott activated 100 National Guardsmen to prepare the response and ordered at least 7,000 more to report for duty by Sept. 8. In a statement, Scott said he had asked the National Guard Bureau to identify 30,000 additional troops to respond if they are needed.

Meanwhile, the Navy evacuated non-essential service members and their families from Naval Air Station Key West, Navy officials said. They were ordered to evacuate to within 300 miles of Atlanta, Ga.

The Navy also diverted two Virginia-based warships headed toward the Texas coast to respond to Hurricane Harvey, which hit there last week, to position themselves to respond if needed to Irma. The USS Kearsarge, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, and the USS Oak Hill, a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship, were positioned off the eastern coast of southern Florida where they could assist civilian authorities if they are asked, Davis said.

A Navy official said two other ships were being prepared to deploy toward south Florida to respond if necessary. The USS Iwo Jima, another Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, and the USS New York, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, were being loaded with supplies at Naval Station Mayport, near Jacksonville, Florida as of Sept. 6, the official said on the condition of anonymity.

The Air Force on Sept. 6 began evacuating F-16 fighter jets stationed at Homestead Air Reserve Base just south of Miami, said Air Force Lt. Col. Chad Gibson, a spokesman for Air Force Reserve Command. In total, 17 F-16s are being moved to Texas, he said.

Gibson said the Air Force was flying WC-130J "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft out of Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi into Irma to collect storm data. The service was also preparing search and rescue units to respond if needed, he said.

President Donald Trump had declared pre-landfall emergencies for the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Florida as of Sept. 6. Hurricane Irma preparations come as National Guardsmen continue to respond to Hurricane Harvey. That deadly storm made landfall on Texas' coast as a Category 4 hurricane on Aug. 25. More than 16,000 U.S. active duty, National Guard and reserve troops responded as Harvey dropped more than 50 inches of rain on areas around Houston and was blamed for more than 60 deaths.
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Here's How The Military Is Preparing For Hurricane Irma

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The U.S. Navy evacuated some 5,000 service members from its Key West air station Sept. 6 as National Guard troops in the path of Hurricane Irma prepared to respond to the massive storm threatening American territory in the Caribbean and the Florida mainland, according to defense officials.

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Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park

It seems that you can hardly go a block in Chicago without seeing a statue or a sculpture. There's Chicago athletes like Ernie Banks in front of Wrigley Field or Michael Jordan at the United Center. There's media stars from Chicago's past such as Jack Brickhouse on Pioneer Plaza, Irv Kupcinet at Wacker & Wabash and Harry Carey at Wrigley.

There's Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park; the lions guarding the Art Institute of Chicago; the giant Picasso casting its shadow on Daley Plaza and so many more--if only they could talk--what would they say?

Last summer, Chicagoans and visitors got a chance to hear some of their stories with the launch of an innovative public art exhibition called Statue Stories Chicago

The exhibition, a joint effort by British arts producers, Sing London, the Chicago Park District, and some of Chicago's leading theatres cumulated in the creation of a series of stories for neatly 30 Chicago statues.

Since then, Chicago has been listening. Walk by any of these statues and you'll see visitors swiping their smartphones on the nearby signs in order to get a call back from the likes of Shakespeare, Lincoln and even Bob Newhart to hear their stories.

With the Chicago weather heating up along with four newly added statues (Brachiosaurus, Fountain Girl, Bronze Cow and Spirit of the Great Lakes) in the mix, it seems like this may be the perfect time to revisit (or visit for the first time) this blockbuster exhibition before it goes away at the end of summer 2016.

Although you can stop by any of the talking statues on your way to work, shopping or a restaurant, if you want to hear more, the city has put together two self-guided tours that should take two hours or less per tour.
Self-Guided Tour #1: The Loop to the Magnificent Mile
1. Take CTA Red Line to Lake St. - walk to The Picasso (Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington St.)
2. Miro's Chicago Brunswick Plaza, 77 W. Washington St.) - then take CTA Red Line from Monroe to Roosevelt
3. Joseph Rosenberg Fountain (Grant Park, S. Michigan Ave. at 11th St.)
4. Aaron Montgomery Ward (Grant Park, East of S. Michigan Ave. at E. 11th St.)
5. Spirit of Music (Grant Park, S. Michigan Ave. at E. Balbo Dr.)
6. Spirit of the Great Lakes (Grant Park, Art Institute of Chicago South Garden, 111 S. Michigan Ave.)
7 & 8. North and South Lions (Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.)
9. Cloud Gate (Millennium Park, AT&T Plaza)
10. Bronze Cow (Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.)- then take Michigan Ave bus north to Tribune Tower
11. Jean-Baptiste Point Du Sable (Pioneer Court/Chicago River and Michigan Ave.)
12. Nathan Hale (Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave.)
13. Benito Juarez (Plaza of the Americas, 430 N. Michigan Ave.)

Estimated Time: 2 hours
Self-Guided Tour #2: Lincoln Park to Oz Park

1. Fountain Girl (East of Abraham Lincoln Monument

2. Abraham Lincoln (East of Chicago History Museum)

3. Benjamin Franklin (North of W. La Salle Dr.)

4. William Shakespeare (West of Lincoln Park Conservatory)- walk West to Oz Park

5. Tin Man (W. Webster Ave. at N. Larrabee St.)

6. Dorothy and Toto (W. Webster Ave. near 700 W.)

7. The Cowardly Lion (N. Larrabee St. at W. Dickens Ave.)

Estimated Time: 90 minutes

Although not all the statues are included in these two self-guided tours, they should give you a good overview of Chicago's history. Other statues are located in areas further from the city such as the World's Fair Bison in Humboldt Park and Paul Laurence Dunbar in Dunbar Park and others.

For a complete list of all of Chicago's talking statues, click here.

The voices you'll hear feature both local and national celebrities including Elizabeth McGovern, Bob Newhart, David Schwimmer, Renee Fleming, John C. Reilly and a host of others.

To hear the statues speak, all you have to do is to swipe your smartphone on a nearby sign and almost immediately you'll get a "call back" from the statue with its story.
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It seems that you can hardly go a block in Chicago without seeing a statue or a sculpture. There's Chicago athletes like Ernie Banks in front of Wrigley Field or Michael Jordan at the United Center. There's media stars from Chicago's past such as Jack Brickhouse on Pioneer Plaza, Irv Kupcinet at Wacker & Wabash...