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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Abe Asher

New Hampshire town battles over donut mural that symbolises ‘fight for artists everywhere’

Leavitt’s Country Bakery/Institute of Justice

A bakery is suing a New Hampshire town in US district court over the future of a mural depicting baked goods in a case with First Amendment implications.

Last spring, Leavitt’s Country Bakery commissioned a mural above its storefront in Conway. A week later, the bakery was notified by an assistant code enforcer that the mural was in fact a sign, and that it violated the town’s zoning ordinances because it was too large.

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