Frank Lloyd Wright

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Wright designed gratis the A-frame cabins and pleasant pavilions for the
Circle Pines Center cooperative camp in Michigan -- affectionately called Camp
Stalin during Phil Ochs's years there -- where nearly all Chicago area red
diaper babies of the fifties, sixties, and seventies lost their virginity.

Also in the sixties, the Lutheran seminary at the University of Chicago
announced plans to raze Robie House to make way for its new headquarters.
Asked his opinion, Wright said (as best I can recall; verbatim not
guaranteed), "That's what happens when you entrust something spiritual to the
clergy." After vigorous public protests led by radicals, the Lutherans changed
their plans. Robie house was saved, but the Lutherans still own and inhabit
it. I don't recall anyone being fearful that Wright's wacko politics would
affect us when we demanded that the magnificent building be preserved.

Ken Lawrence