The Benton County Historical Society will host an event at 6:30 pm on Monday, June 29 at the Vinton Depot. The one hour, slide illustrated talk is titled Everett Warner and Ship Camouflage: The Role of a Vinton-Born Artist in Both World Wars. 
Born in Vinton in 1877, Everett Longley Warner was a prominent American Impressionist artist who headed a US Navy unit of artists and architects who designed colorful camouflage  (called “dazzle camouflage”) for more than 1200 American ships during World War I. During World War II, Warner served again in the same capacity. 
Warner’s father was a Vinton attorney (law partner of State Senator William P. Whipple), Clerk of Court, published writer, and real estate agent. Everett Warner’s family resided in Vinton for the first eleven years of his life, during which the family owned the land that overlooks the Cedar River at the current location of Riverside Park.
The event is free and open to the public.
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