Muralist Michael Rosato, the artist who created the striking T.C. Walker mural in 2020 in Gloucester Court House, is back in town creating another work of public art at the behest of the Cook Foundation. His latest mural is going up along the wall of the Bay Aging Active Lifestyle Building on Main Street. Rosato is endeavoring to capture much of Gloucester’s 350 years of history in this new mural, a project he began earlier this month and which will be finished by the end of June. On Friday (above), he was working on a scene from the Revolutionary War Battle of the Hook. The previous panel (in photo below) captured scenes of the late Eldridge Cook, a renowned Gloucester businessman who owned Cook’s Seafood, dredging up oysters, and the Rosewell Plantation. The Cook Foundation has commissioned a number of murals up and down Main Street; the most recent addition was the Iconic Women of Gloucester in 2024.