If you drive north northeast out of New York City, you hit Connecticut, and if you keep

going north on Route 8 for a while, you get to the little town of Winstead.

Stay right at the fork and you will come upon an old brick

warehouse. It used to be part of a factory that made woolens and knitware, including, as legend has it,

the long baseball socks worn by the New York Yankees and the Boston

Red Sox.

But the factory closed many years ago and the warehouse today is a museum called the American

mural project. It is a tribute called the American mural project. It is a tribute to the American worker and it took

more than 20 years to build. It was a collaboration between artists, school kids, a few celebrities,

and all kinds of workers.

At the museum, they will tell you that 15,000 people helped create this project,

but really it's the work of one woman.

My name is Ellen Griesedik, and what do I do?

I'm an artist, and people tell me I'm the president of this full disclosure.

Ellen is an old friend of mine.

She lives near here along with her husband Sam Posey,

an architect and former race car driver.

They are two of the nicest and most interesting people I know.

Ellen is a painter who started out as a sports photographer. She shot NASCAR races

and 24 hours of Lamal. She shot Bjorn Borg and Billy Jean King and many others.

She was famous for spending a lot of time with her subjects for really getting her nose

and things. And sometimes they put their nose in her

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