“Maggie Valley, North Carolina, is a town that sparks your imagination with memorial images. The Ghost Town theme park, the Stomping Ground’s mountain music, dinner theater, fine dining, shopping for crafts, ski slopes, connecting with the Blue Ridge Parkway, motorcycles, bear and elk and camping by Jonathan Creek are unforgettable,” said Appalachian Mural Trail project director Doreyl Ammons Cain.

All of these images will be a part of a new mural commissioned by Roy Milling, the new owner of Joey’s Pancake House. Ammons Cain has accepted the challenge of completing the mural. Once finished, the mural will cover the wall in the foyer, which is 25 feet long, where folks wait to have a seat to have breakfast in this famous pancake house.

“The idea is for folks who are waiting to have a fun experience as they find all kinds of interesting images of Maggie Valley in the art mural,” Milling said.

The glassed-in foyer will have spotlights on the mural so passing visitors can see the mural through the glass. 

“This is an exciting art project for me,” Ammons Cain said. “I have been to Ghost Town, danced at the Stomping Ground and tasted fudge at Maggie’s Mountaineer Crafts, things I’ll always remember. My best efforts will be put into this tribute to Maggie Valley.”

The mural is expected to take five months to design and paint. An unveiling date will be scheduled in the fall of 2018.

With the help of the Blue Ridge Parkway Association, the Appalachian Mural Trail Group got started in 2016 and a large mural was created and displayed throughout the far western counties. Since then other murals have gradually developed in Dillsboro and Sylva.

For more information, call 828.293.2239 or visit www.muraltrail.com.