The Art Box - Episode 481 — The Art of Building Community: Larry LeMieux

For nearly three decades, Larry LeMieux has been one of those people who sees something a community could use and then helps make it happen.

On Episode 481 of The Art Box, Steve sits down with Larry for a conversation that becomes something of an oral history of Mesquite. We travel from his early newspaper days and the creation of the Mesquite High Rollers to helping establish the Mesquite Senior Games, organizing the Mesquite Community Band, supporting the beginnings of the Southern Nevada Symphony Orchestra, directing theatre, and producing local talent shows.

We also hear about Larry’s twenty years managing the Mesquite Airport, where airplanes sometimes took a back seat to bringing people together, from hangar parties supporting veterans to giving children the unforgettable experience of their first airplane ride.

And retirement certainly hasn’t meant slowing down. Larry continues finding new ways to contribute through WOMMA, the performing arts, Cowboy Poetry and other community projects.

Larry’s story reminds us that communities don’t simply grow. People build them, one idea, one event, one friendship and one willing volunteer at a time.

And maybe that is another example of something we believe on The Art Box: sometimes the greatest work of art is a community.