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What is Ernest Hüpeden’s Painted Forest?
That’s simple: It’s a former meeting house — for a secret society of woodmen that provided life insurance to its members who performed rituals in costume — that was painted floor to ceiling in the 1890s by a German itinerant, alcoholic and self-taught folk …