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8/15/2002
Look at the time fly by, trying to get by in LA. The local economic climate is like the Greenland Ice Sheet. The closer you are to the bottom, the heavier the load on your shoulders. And writers in this town are at the nether regions of the feeding chain. However, I have been fortunate enough to land some work, if on a deadline, which accounts for the lapse in tippling my daily grail here. However, leave it to the Path to provide a kickstart. Marcia Anderson at the Minnesota Historical Society sent a copy of an article by Marion Alice Parker that appeared in the April, 1916, issue of Keith's Magazine. Titled "Rain-on-the-Roof," the piece describes the expansion and decoration of her restful summer retreat at a lake in then suburban Minneapolis. And it is top of the list for things to mount here.
8/9/2002
If you have never read the letter Elmslie sent to Wright in the 1930s, castigating him (a mild term for the vitriol) over Wright's treatment of Sullivan, you've not really seen the Dark Side. That 5 page typed epistle is so damning that well-meaning but timid historians deliberately refused to publish the text, in the 1960s-1970s, because they thought it made Elmslie look bad. Hell, it made WRIGHT look bad, and the dismissive response [FLLW responded, interestingly enough] from Taliesin did not address a single point raised by Elmslie (essentially, to paraphrase FLLW, "Tch. Tch. You don't know anything!") I suppose you are going to want to see it here, but not today. You have to love the Getty Center for microfilming all the FLLW correspondence then spending $1.5 billion to provide access 6 miles from my domicile.
8/7/2002
With the monthly crisis of offering/ransom to the property management company out of the way for another 30 days, I can resume my work. The struggle to survive cost me a week with no progress on this site. Next up is the challenge to pay the DSL bill. Sigh. Someone drop me a note and let me know what it feels like to have enough money to work! As opposed to enough work to have money, I suppose. Corrected some links today, and now off to my new part-time editorial job. Blessed be! Something done at least. And, I have gained Stack Reader privileges at the Getty Research Institute, where the microfilm of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives correspondence lives. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, a sweetheart of a friend and one of the few (say 5 or 6) that I miss (or, more precisely, who miss me) from the Fellowship--sent me printouts of all the FLLW letters to both Purcell and Elmslie. Looks like a good batch about Alphonso Ianelli being commissioned to do the sculpture groups for the Woodbury County Court House; and a trickle of sometimes unsettling communiqu'sthrough the 1920s-1950s.
7/30/2002
Added the full views of the P&E advertising brochures and the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, project (Minneapolis, Minnesota); added the renderings for the Mankato Bank project and started the photographs for the Merchants Bank.
research courtesy mark hammons