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Home again.
Topic Started: Jun 17 2006, 07:05 AM (188 Views)
Mark
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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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You know, I think that Geico commercial with the swerving car and the high-five'in' squirrels is eerily spot on.

Welcome back, Mark :wave2:
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welcome home!
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Glad to see you back, Mark. Hope all's well on the home front as well.
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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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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.

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