Attic Gallery celebrates 35 years On Friday, October 6, 2006 Vicksburg's Attic Gallery will celebrate its 35 anniversary with the opening reception of "35 Years in the Attic," a show created by 36 artists who have been connected to the gallery over those years. Lesley Silver opened the Attic on that exact day in 1971 in the unused second floor space of her husband's downtown business on Washington Street. Remembering the Attic's beginnings, she said, "We had purchased some etchings and other original prints after a trip to California, and they were starting to fill our home, so we cleared out a small area to display them at the top of a staircase hidden in the corner of our gift shop." The business grew slowly to include work by local artists and all types of fine crafts. In the early 1980's Lesley became interested in folk art and that took the Attic in the colorful, eclectic, direction it reflects now, where paintings, photography, sculpture, fine