From the Times-News:

AL ZAGOFSKY/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS Ed and Kristin Meckes, center, are excited about their two children Cheyenne, far left, and Cody, far right, claiming prizes for originality at the Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation's Art Marathon. Cody won a $75 prize for Most Original Overall, competing with amateur and professional artists, including several who came to the foundation from Philadelphia.

The historic district of Jim Thorpe, hidden amid mountains and largely isolated from the late-20th Century redevelopment, has in recent years, with its rugged landscape and ornate Victorian buildings, become a Mecca for talented, often quirky, artists.

But perhaps never so much as on Saturday, Aug. 7, at the Art Marathon, sponsored by the Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation. Noted for its shows of vintage abstract impressionist art, the foundation kicked “quirky” up a notch as it awarded a major prize to an artist that, under the guidelines, should have been too young to enter.

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