Friday, February 14, 2003
Shuttle painting on display
By PETE BOHACZYK
NEWS-JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT
PORT ORANGE — A painting of John Glenn´s history-making ride aboard the space shuttle Discovery in October 1998 is now on display at the Port Orange Regional Library. The painting was created by artist Philomena Mlynarski, who died in December 2001.
Her husband of 60 years, Albert Mlynarski, was looking through a collection of his wife´s paintings and ran across the one depicting the Discovery as it left the launch pad. He recalled that his wife started the painting when she saw a photograph of the ship lifting off in the Oct. 20, 1998 edition of the Daytona Beach News-Journal dated. He felt with the present tragedy of the shuttle Columbia, he should display the painting where folks could see it.
“I didn´t realize that she painted it until I noticed it in the rec room with other paintings,” Mlynarski said. “She had named the painting ‘Heaven Bound.’”
He had contacted the library and obtained permission to have the painting displayed next to the flag on the right side of the building´s entrance.
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