Wendell Collum was only one of the many characters that made Orleans what it is today. There were many unconventional, yet very gifted, people without whom the town would be nowhere near as rich, culturally or historically, as it is today.
Mr. Collum painted/drew all kinds of things. He even did the front of a 5½" x 4¼" bifold card for NP Originals, a printer in Orleans
"The two pictures of the Face On the Barroom floor in it's completed stage were taken in the basement of my old house on Route 6 in N. Eastham. The house is now the Cape Cod Dog store at Main Street Merchantile. When my mom, Fay Ann Shook, sold the property in 1985 to Bob Erickson, we took the Face down and brought it to her new house in Eastham and then I brought it to Orleans after my mom died. It was never set up again by us due to the amount of space that it required. In 2013, after unsuccessfully trying to sell the Face, I gave it to Eldred's as I was selling my home in Orleans and was unable to take it with me."
Norris Shook
