This mural portrays one of Maryborough’s timeless, interesting, brave and well known characters – Barbara Dalton, the matriarch of the “Dalton Family Whip Cracking Show” who performed at our local markets.  The Whip Cracking Show was announced each Market Day by the blowing of a bullock horn by one of her daughters.  The Show was a crowd favourite and Barbara would put a rolled-leaf in her mouth and let her husband or one of her sons crack it in half with a whip!  The audience, often six deep, would watch enthralled as the leaf was cut from Barb’s mouth, or in the case of her skills, a persons fingers.  Adding to this remarkable lady’s abilities was her skill with pistols and rifles – she was recognised in the Sporting Shooters Association.  She was born in Gympie in 1937 and moved to Maryborough soon after.  She married in 1956 and had six children.  She passed away in 2015.