Graffiti on the side of a Malvern barn – which reads “This is woman’s lib?” – is drawing attention, 50 years after it was painted, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Local News.

The barn belongs to Ronnie and Frank Keegan, who moved to Malvern from Southwest Philadelphia in 1968. Short on cash, the couple decided to do some of the work on the building themselves, including repainting the German siding on the home.

“I was hot, tired, and dirty; I’d had enough,” said Ronnie. “I wrote ‘This is woman’s lib?’ with the primer and that was it. Not for this woman.”

She believes that conditions for women are no better today, as they just get extra work and most of the household workload.

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The barn became famous when it was on the news during the 1970s era of Immaculata’s championship-winning basketball teams and again when PECO trimmed the trees covering the slogan.

However, the newfound glory is annoying Ronnie, as people keep posting about the barn without knowing all the facts.

“People today don’t understand it; they think all of a sudden it appeared,” she said. “They don’t know it’s from the ‘70s.”

Read more about the iconic graffiti in the Daily Local News here.

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