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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s efforts to rid his cluttered mental closet of trash has finally taken up his thinking that Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwaters” house in Pa. is an offense to a beautiful natural stream and would justifiably be illegal in Wisconsin.
Building a structure for one rich client at the expense of depriving the public of unfettered views of a beautiful natural feature on free-flowing public waters has always seemed to the keeper to be nothing more than the rich taunting the poor.
The keeper is ready for Wright worshipers to tell him how wrong he is. In the meantime, he recalls how once in searching for newspaper column material, he discovered that Frank’s grave at the little chapel near Spring Green had recently been opened and Frank’s remains had been secretly moved to Arizona at the behest of his wife Olga. It was a big story–that a huge Wisconsin personality had left the state in favor of Arizona, and the keeper had a tough time resisting the temptation to suggest that it was “the Wisconsin winters” that figured in Frank’s much delayed travels to the west.
The keeper is also aware that Frank’s roofs tended to leak, but that is a story for another time.
Photo by Bill Stokes