There's a joke about a chameleon somewhere in here....
"Taliesin, Wright's masterpiece, was the scene of a mass murder in August 1914, when a deranged servant set fire to Taliesin, then killed seven people with an ax as they tried to escape. The victims included Wright's mistress, her two children and other guests."
WOW! File this under: Learn something new everyday!
FREEP this town.
I also hail from Oak Park. My father was delivered by Ernest Hemingway's father. I was working at the Badger Ammunition plant in the early 70s (representing a Chicago construction firm), and traveled the area. I went searching for Taliesen, not publicized at the time because it was not open to the public. On that winter day when I arrived there, it was boarded up, abandoned. I removed a board, and spent the afternoon roaming the rooms. It was most amazing to see them strewn with architectural drawings, as if the students (among them Stalin's daughter, as mentioned in the article) ran from the place because of a return of the axe fellow. I still don't know whay it was in the state it was in.
think I need to take a bike ride bump.
What the attractions include at the resort he IS staying at (The House on the Rock), The Sea Creature:
Yep. "Lambert" Field did him in. There is no recovering from that in my home state.