Taliesin

At Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

 

I had the pleasure of visiting Frank Lloyd Wright's first home, Taliesin, and his estate, today.  Amazingly beautiful and a great tour.  It's incredible going to Taliesin with someone who is intelligent about Wright's background.  A fire destroyed the house in 1914; yet, they don't tell you on the tour it was a caretaker of the grounds from Barbados with an axe who killed seven people including Wright's true 'love of his life,' (and her two children) and burned the house down.  You don't learn that stuff on the tour.  I look forward to seeing more of FLW's bodies of work around Wisconsin and the rest of the United States. 

 

*  A good book I'd like to recommend is 'Many Masks:  A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright' by Brendan Gill.  Purchase the book at Amazon.com here.

 

*  Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.  --  A quote engraved on the wall in the theatre at Taliesin by Walt Whitman