Burlington officials grapple with controversial mural

The mural, along an alley off Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace, was painted in 2012 to mark the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s arrival in the Champlain Valley in 1609. Photo by Cory Dawson/VTDigger
BURLINGTON — City officials have begun the process for deciding what to do with a controversial downtown mural that has been called inaccurate, non-representative and racist.
When Burlington activist Albert Petrarca spray painted the words “Off the Wall”