<i>Captain Alezur Holyoke’s Exploring Party on the Connecticut River</i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_E._Moffett" class="extiw" title="w:Ross E. Moffett">Ross E. Moffett</a>; inexplicably Alezur is often spelled "Alezue" despite the fact that the historic figure portrayed is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizur_Holyoke" class="extiw" title="w:Elizur Holyoke">Elizur Holyoke</a>. This oil mural is visible at the west wall of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyoke_Post_Office" class="extiw" title="w:Holyoke Post Office">Holyoke Post Office</a> above the Postmaster's door. It depicts a scene of Elizur Holyoke and his team surveying the land to the south of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tom_(Massachusetts)" class="extiw" title="w:Mount Tom (Massachusetts)">Mount Tom</a> which can be seen in the background. To the left are two colonists looking over their day's catch of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_shad" class="extiw" title="w:American shad">American shad</a> which remain abundant in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_River" class="extiw" title="w:Connecticut River">Connecticut River</a> at Hadley Falls to this day. To the right a man in a flat-bottom boat can be seen with a deer, of the day's hunt.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Moffett" class="extiw" title="w:Ross Moffett">Ross Moffett</a>
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