From the Feb. 19, 2021, Norfolk (Nebraska) Daily News "Minatare man discovers art dating from World War II behind restaurant wall" by Justin Garcia.
Minatare is a town of 816 on the western border of Nebraska.
Dennis Wecker began remodeling one of the rooms of his bar, Broken Spoke Bar and Grill in Minatare when he discovered something he hadn't expected at all. There was a painting of three horseman galloping across the Great Plains. It is now out front in the room for everyone to see.
How did it get there?
He has owned the business for about four years now and said that the building was once part of a World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. German and Italian POWs were imprisoned across the entire state during the war. One of those prisoners was an Italian artist.
He has heard that the artist covered the entire building with art and that at the end of the war, the building was moved to Minatare.
--GreGen
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