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| Mark | Jun 17 2006, 07:05 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Got in around 10:00pm last night. A very busy and productive week. I was so busy with things that I did not get a chance to do much except take the family to go see Frank Lloyd Wright's House at Kentuck Knob. What a house! I think it is a house better suited to day to day living then say Falling Water which was designed as a weekend getaway. The Hagen House (Kentuck Knob) was designed and constructed 20+ years after Falling Water and the technology and building techniques show that quite clearly. Al, Aqua, 89th, I did not have much free time this trip but I will be coming back in September and will probably have time then. A long, sometimes scary drive home which included an incident with a suicidal squirrel and a vehicle which after $1200 of front end rebuild work before the trip, was feeling like I had very little control over it wandering side to side at highway speeds. I suspect a bad tire. Anyway, it's good to be home. |
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| Optimistic | Jun 17 2006, 07:12 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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You know, I think that Geico commercial with the swerving car and the high-five'in' squirrels is eerily spot on. Welcome back, Mark
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| apple | Jun 17 2006, 07:25 AM Post #3 |
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one of the angels
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glad you are home start posting |
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| DivaDeb | Jun 17 2006, 07:27 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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welcome home! |
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| George K | Jun 17 2006, 07:32 AM Post #5 |
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Glad to see you back, Mark. Hope all's well on the home front as well. |
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| Larry | Jun 17 2006, 08:15 AM Post #6 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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| Dewey | Jun 17 2006, 09:13 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The Hagan House is wonderful, and the Mr. & Mrs. Hagan were wonderful, gracious people. You should have seent he place when they were still living there Mark, with all of their original furnishings, custom built-in dining table and accessories - and I.N.'s amazing bonsai collection (it used to be on the master bedroom terrace, sitting on copper-lined tray/tables, surrounded by seeds for the squirrels and birds), and his other plants in the greenhouse (which is now part of the visitor center). A perfect place. Amazingly, when the house, the greenhouse, an old farmhouse, and the surrounding ten acres sold to the lord and lady (back in the 80's, I think), the whole package went for only around $600,000. I could live the rest of my days in the Hagan House very, very contentedly. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| The 89th Key | Jun 17 2006, 08:46 PM Post #8 |
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| big al | Jun 18 2006, 07:20 PM Post #9 |
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Sorry we couldn't connect this trip, Mark. Maybe better luck next time. I really have to visit the Hagan house. My wife grew up in Uniontown, and her family had a passing acqaintance with the Hagans, although they knew the Fikes (the other dairy in town) better. I bought the recently published book on the house a few months ago. On Memorial Day, my wife and I drove up to the Somerset area to pay our respects at the Flight 97 memorial. Then we chased down a few covered bridges and stopped at Ohiopyle for a couple hours of hiking. We drove past the entrance to the Hagan house on our way to Hopwood to plant a flag at her father's grave and talked about how we really need to plan a visit there. Big Al |
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