MONTPELIER, VT. (AP).- A photographic mural by artist Norman Rockwell has been returned to its former home in Vermont’s capital, drawing a close to a yearlong dispute between state officials and a museum where it hung for 23 years. The black-and-white photograph, “Maple Sugaring in Vermont,” depicts a sugar house with smoke rising from its chimney as men — including Rockwell himself — tend sap buckets hanging on maple trees outside. Made in 1947, the 5-by-7-foot mural was commissioned by Rockwell friend Col. Henry Fairfax Ayres, who lent it to the state for display. The famed illustrator, whose paintings of farm scenes, apple-cheeked children and slices of Americana appeared for decades in The Saturday Evening Post, died in 1978. For about 14 years, he lived in Vermont, where he struck up a friendship with Ayres, a West Point grad and war