And I bought some tennis balls and a tennis shirt at a local sporting goods store to load up for next week's matches.
Adam is still in Chicago, but I used his scanner again to move these photos to digital format. They are both from 1990 - 17 years ago when times were much different. This is Kelsey with a fish she caught in Wisconsin at Fred Prouse's cabin that summer. It's the only fish that I know she caught - ever - and she was pretty excited, and cute. I used to have the picture on my desk at work.
This is also from 1990. Adam and his buddy, Andy (Mr. Excitement, we called him), were making movies with the video camera. I think they did some sound dubbing and maybe some story boarding for their mini-classic, "The Package." The footage is still in existence and can be made available for a modest fee. This film making was fitted in between the video gaming sessions that went on quite a bit in those years.
I tried to do some digging today to find out why that Friedrich Schiller guy has a statue in Como Park. There was some googling to do and a pass through Wikipedia. It seems that Schiller made Carver's Cave in St Paul popular in some of his writings and thus may have encouraged some of his compatriots to emigrate to Minnesota. Carver's Cave used to exist in Dayton's Bluff in St Paul, but was destroyed many years ago in an orgy of railroad building. It had been a sacred site for the Indians when they owned the land and was reputed to be quite lovely. Another example of unplanned urban development.
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Cute pics of the kids when they were kids. The SLO's have used our web cam to record some staged interviews, and had a blast doing it. Technology is amazing. A sad story about the railroads destroying the cave ..... Good research job, though. SS
And good luck on next week's tennis matches! Santini
I think the official word on Carver Cave, at least the word where I work, is that the cave still exists but that fill associated with the cut through the bluff to put in the railroad blocked the entrance. The interior is supposed to be a lake and that water still exits to the Mississippi so something has to exist there. Just exactly what, I do not know but I have heard a story that the cave has been temporarily opened at least once since it was sealed and that public works types went inside in boats and poked around, before resealing the opening for "safety purposes". There is more to the story than this but that is all I know.
Gino,
Interesting story. I'd like to know more. I'll do some more poking around on the internet, but maybe your co-workers are a better source. TT
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