{"id":160142,"date":"2026-04-08T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160142\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:02:09","slug":"shenandoah-native-sons-prominent-in-scranton-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160142\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenandoah native sons prominent in Scranton mural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">SCRANTON \u2013 Just over an hour north of the Heart of the Anthracite, two native sons are honored on a mural in the Electric City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shenandoah\u2019s own Dorsey Brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, are featured prominently in a mural in downtown Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As one may expect, the mural, adorning the side of a law firm on Wyoming Avenue, is dubbed \u201cThe Big Band.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P1700343.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26092\"  \/>KAYLEE LINDENMUTH \/ SHENANDOAH SENTINEL \u2013 Shenandoah\u2019s own Doresy Brothers are seen in the center of a mural dubbed The Big Band, seen on Wyoming Avenue in Scranton on April 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrantontomorrow.org\/thebigbandmural\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to Scranton Tomorrow<\/a>, the mural was painted by Eric Bussart and was dedicated in October of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In addition to the Dorsey Brothers, it also features the Scranton Sirens and their bandleader Billy Lustig, as well as the Dorseys\u2019 mentor Duke Ellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Dorsey Brothers, Scranton Tomorrow says, first played with the Scranton Sirens at the historic Hotel Casey.<\/p>\n<p>        About Author<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/shensentinel.com\/news\/author\/kaylee-lindenmuth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d469fde34182a38885d906fef4a1df94bec9c45f4028d2a524980d11f095e31a.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-150 photo\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/shensentinel.com\/news\/author\/kaylee-lindenmuth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaylee Lindenmuth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaylee Lindenmuth is a Shenandoah native with a passion for journalism and the community she calls home. She is a 12-time Keystone Media Award winner, a PAB Excellence in Broadcasting award winner, and has been nominated for a Mid-Atlantic Emmy award.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tContinue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2013 Just over an hour north of the Heart of the Anthracite, two native sons are honored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-160142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}