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SUSSEX - The Sussex Mural Committee has released four new additions to its series of commemorative mural postcards. They include the Sussex Vale Exhibition Building built in 1861 for a provincial agricultural exhibition.

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Mural artist Fred Harrison, who now makes the Sussex area his full-time home, stepped in to improve details of the town’s largest mural that spans the backside of the Mrs. Dunster’s building on Leonard Drive. Last year the mural was nearly completed by Peter Bresnen of Halifax but he was unable to spend the time required in the dairy town this summer to make the necessary adjustments to make it historically correct.

The Hugh McMonagle mural in Sussex Corner tells the story in paint of the influential businessman largely responsible for establishing Sussex as the provincially known dairy town.

The third postcard marks the 1898 switch of the official postal cancellation stamp from Sussex Vale to the simpler name Sussex. The fourth card displays the popular Snappy Fire Department mural.

Along with the colourful images, each postcard notes the mural's story, the artist who created it, and the painting's location.

These four new cards join two earlier ones featuring the Sussex Ginger Ale and the first covered skating rink murals. The large postcards are available around town where the mural walking tour guides are sold. Sales proceeds support the maintenance of the area's 26 murals.