Two landscape paintings lost in town.
Description
I'm Emily Carter, and I'm looking for two landscape paintings that disappeared from my Mattoon-Charleston home after a quick stop downtown. On Tuesday around 6:15 p.m., I carried them from our living room to the car near the Mattoon Public Library on Main Street and must have forgotten them somewhere along that block. The set includes two 20x24 inch frames with gold trim; one shows a sunset over cornfields near Mattoon, the other a quiet river view just west of Charleston. They're irreplaceable to me because they belonged to my grandmother, and losing them feels like losing a piece of her. I'm hoping someone spotted them on the sidewalk or tucked behind the alley behind the Main Street shops.
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