from Union-News, 9/13/1990:
A youth helping to paint a historical mural on the western side of the Veterans Memorial Mall suffered minor injuries - with Russian visitors looking on - when he fell from scaffolding yesterday.
Misha Krushnic, 16, of Colrain was helping with the project fostered by his mother, Rebekka Tippens, and was climbing on the outside of the wooden scaffolding when a nail in a railing pulled out and he dropped about 15 feet.
Although the youth landed on his feet and rolled, his mother explained, “He was doing something he shouldn’t have, showing off a little."
None of the Russian tourists from Greenfield’s "sister city” of Poltava in the Ukraine were on the scaffolding at the time, although they were helping with the mural. Tippens said all the visitors were on the ground painting when her son slipped and fell.
Because of his Russian name, police and reporters first thought that the boy was one of the Russians, but Tippens later explained that her former husband’s grandparents had come from Russia.
Mercy Ambulance was called to the scene, and the youth taken to the hospital after he complained of a sore heel and slight dizziness, but he was able to stand and step on to the ambulance gurney without help.
The tourist group was somewhat shaken by the incident. However, the visitors were still looking forward to the rest of their trip, much of it to be spent in the Northampton and Amherst area yesterday and today.
Polina Mitrofanova told of the early part of the tour to Cape Cod.
“It was wonderful,” she said. “The waves were so high, I have never seen ocean, only Black Sea, but no big waves like that."
The visiting group of 23, mostly students and teachers from the Poltava and Mirograd region, are slated to be back in town for a dance at the Guiding Star Grange Hall on Friday. They will head home on Saturday.
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