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Florence Price

Florence Beatrice Price (née Smith; April 9, 1887 – June 3, 1953) was an African-American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra.

Biography

Early Life

She was born as Florence Beatrice Smith to Florence (Gulliver) and James H. Smith on April 9, 1887, in Little Rock, Arkansas, one of three children in a mixed-race family. Despite racial issues of the era, her family was well respected and did well within their community. Her father was a dentist and her mother was a music teacher who guided Florence's early musical training. She had her first piano performance at the age of four and had her first composition published at the age of 11.

By the time she was 14, Florence had graduated as valedictorian of her class. After high school, she later enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts with a major in piano and organ. Initially, she identified as Mexican to avoid the prejudice people had toward African Americans at the time. At the Conservatory, she studied composition and counterpoint with composers George Chadwick and Frederick Converse. Also while there, Smith wrote her first string trio and symphony. She graduated in 1906 with honors, and with both an artist diploma in organ and a teaching certificate.

Career

Smith returned to Arkansas, where she taught briefly before moving to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1910. There she became the head of the music department of what is now Clark Atlanta University, a historically black college. In 1912, she married Thomas J. Price, a lawyer. She moved back to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he had his practice. After a series of racial incidents in Little Rock, particularly a lynching of a black man in 1927, the Price family decided to leave. Like many black families living in the Deep South, they moved north in the Great Migration to escape Jim Crow conditions, and settled in Chicago, a major industrial city.

There Florence Price began a new and fulfilling period in her composition career. She studied composition, orchestration, and organ with the leading teachers in the city, including Arthur Olaf Andersen, Carl Busch, Wesley La Violette, and Leo Sowerby. She published four pieces for piano in 1928. While in Chicago, Price was at various times enrolled at the Chicago Musical College, Chicago Teacher’s College, University of Chicago, and American Conservatory of Music, studying languages and liberal arts subjects as well as music. Financial struggles and abuse by her husband resulted in Price getting a divorce in 1931. She became a single mother to her two daughters. To make ends meet, she worked as an organist for silent film screenings and composed songs for radio ads under a pen name. During this time, Price lived with friends. She eventually moved in with her student and friend, Margaret Bonds, also a black pianist and composer. This friendship connected Price with writer Langston Hughes and contralto Marian Anderson, both prominent figures in the art world who aided in Price's future success as a composer.

Together, Price and Bonds began to achieve national recognition for their compositions and performances. In 1932, both Price and Bonds submitted compositions for the Wanamaker Foundation Awards. Price won first prize with her Symphony in E minor, and third for her Piano Sonata, earning her a $500 prize. (Bonds came in first place in the song category, with a song entitled "Sea Ghost.") The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Frederick Stock, premiered the Symphony on June 15, 1933, making Price’s piece the first composition by an African-American woman to be played by a major orchestra.

A number of Price's other orchestral works were played by the WPA Symphony Orchestra of Detroit, the Chicago Women’s Symphony, and the Women's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago. Price wrote other extended works for orchestra, chamber works, art songs, works for violin, organ anthems, piano pieces, spiritual arrangements, four symphonies, three piano concertos, and a violin concerto. Some of her more popular works are: "Three Little Negro Dances," "Songs to a Dark Virgin", "My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord" for piano or orchestra and voice, and "Moon Bridge". Price made considerable use of characteristic African-American melodies and rhythms in many of her works. Her Concert Overture on Negro Spirituals, Symphony in E minor, and Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint for string quartet, all serve as excellent examples of her idiomatic work. Price was inducted into the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers in 1940 for her work as a composer. In 1949, Price published two of her spiritual arrangements, "I Am Bound for the Kingdom," and "I'm Workin’ on My Buildin'", and dedicated them to Marian Anderson, who performed them on a regular basis.

Personal life and death

In 1912, Price married attorney Thomas J. Price upon returning to Arkansas from Atlanta. Together, they had two daughters and a son; Florence (d. 1975), Edith and Thomas Jr. The Price children were raised in Chicago. Florence Price divorced Thomas Price in January 1931, and on February 14, 1931, she married the widower Pusey Dell Arnett (1875-1957), an insurance agent and former baseball player for the Chicago Unions some thirteen years her senior. She and Arnett were separated by April 1934; they apparently never divorced. On June 3, 1953, Price died from a stroke in Chicago, Illinois, at age 66.

Rediscovery of works

Following her death, much of her work was overshadowed as new musical styles emerged that fit the changing tastes of modern society. Some of her work was lost, but as more African-American and female composers have gained attention for their works, so has Price. In 2001, the Women's Philharmonic created an album of some of her work. Pianist Karen Walwyn and The New Black Repertory Ensemble performed Price's Concerto in One Movement and Symphony in E minor in December 2011.

In 2009, a substantial collection of her works and papers were found in an abandoned dilapidated house on the outskirts of St. Anne, Illinois. These consisted of dozens of her scores, including her two violin concertos and her fourth symphony. As Alex Ross stated in The New Yorker in February 2018, "not only did Price fail to enter the canon; a large quantity of her music came perilously close to obliteration. That run-down house in St. Anne is a potent symbol of how a country can forget its cultural history."

In November 2018, the New York-based firm of G. Schirmer announced that it had acquired the exclusive worldwide rights to Florence Price's complete catalog.

Composition style

Even though her training was steeped in European tradition, Price's music consists of mostly the American idiom and reveals her Southern roots. She wrote with a vernacular style, using sounds and ideas that fit the reality of urban society. Being deeply religious, she frequently used the music of the African-American church as material for her arrangements. At the urging of her mentor George Whitefield Chadwick, Price began to incorporate elements of African-American spirituals, emphasizing the rhythm and syncopation of the spirituals rather than just using the text. Her melodies were blues-inspired and mixed with more traditional, European Romantic techniques. The weaving of tradition and modernism reflected the way life was for African Americans in large cities at the time.

Legacy and honors

In 1964, the Chicago Public Schools opened Florence B. Price Elementary School (also known Price Lit & Writing Elementary School) at 4351 South Drexel Boulevard in the North Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois in her honor. Price student body was predominately African-American. The school operated from 1964 until the school district decided to phase it out in 2011 due to poor academic performance which ultimately led to its closing in 2013. The school housed a piano owned by Price. The school building currently houses a local church as of 2019. In February 2019, The University of Arkansas Honors College held a concert honoring Price. In October 2019, the International Florence Price Festival announced that its inaugural gathering celebrating Price's music and legacy would take place at the University of Maryland School of Music in August 2020.

Works

Symphonies

Symphony No. 1 in E minor (1931–32); First Prize in the Rodman Wanamaker Competition, 1932

Symphony No. 2 in G minor (c. 1935)

Symphony No. 3 in C minor (1938–40)

Symphony No. 4 in D minor (1945)

Concertos

Piano Concerto in D minor (1932–34); often referred to as Piano Concerto in One Movement although the work is in three separate movements

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (1939)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor (1952)

Rhapsody/Fantasie for piano and orchestra (date unknown, possibly incomplete)

Other orchestral works

Ethiopia's Shadow in America (1929–32)

Mississippi River Suite (1934); although labelled as a "suite", the work is cast in one continuous large-scale movement, in which several famous Mississippi River Songs are quoted, such as “Get Down, Moses”, “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” and "Deep River".

Chicago Suite (date unknown)

Colonial Dance Symphony (date unknown)

Concert Overture No. 1 (date unknown); based on the spiritual "Sinner, Please Don’t Let This Harvest Pass"

Concert Overture No. 2 (1943); based on three spirituals ("Go Down Moses", "Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit", "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen")

The Oak, tone poem (1943); sometimes referred to as Songs of the Oak

Suite of Negro Dances (performed in 1951; orchestral version of the Three Little Negro Dances for piano, 1933;); also referred to as Suite of Dances

Dances in the Canebrakes (orchestral version of the homonymous piano work, 1953)

ChoralSolo vocal (all with piano)Instrumental Chamber Music

Andante con espressione (1929)

String Quartet (No. 1) in G major (1929)

Fantasie [No. 1] in G Minor for Violin and Piano (1933)

String Quartet (No. 2) in A minor (published in 1935)

Fantasy [No. 2] in F-sharp Minor for Violin and Piano (1940)

Piano Quintet in E minor (1936)

Piano Quintet in A minor

Five Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet

Suite (Octet) for Brasses and Piano (1930)

Fantasy [No. 2] in F-sharp Minor for Violin and Piano (1940)

Moods, for Flute, Clarinet and Piano (1953)

Spring Journey, for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass and piano

Various pieces for violin and piano

Works for pianoArrangements of spirituals

"My soul's been anchored in de Lord", 1v, pf (1937), arr. 1v, orch, arr. chorus, pf;

"Nobody knows the trouble I see", pf (1938);

"Some o' These Days," 1v, pf

"Were you there when they crucified my Lord?", pf (1942);

"I am bound for the kingdom", 1v, pf (1948);

"I'm workin' on my building", 1v, pf job at Florida

"Heav'n bound soldier", male chorus, 1949 [2 arrs.];

Undated:

"Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho" (ca. 1950)

"Peter, Go Ring dem Bells," ed. John Michael Cooper (New York: G. Schirmer, 2019)

* "Variations on a Folksong (Peter, go ring dem bells)", org (1996);

"I couldn't hear nobody pray", SSAATTBB;

"Save me, Lord, save me", 1v, pf;

"Trouble done come my way", 1v, pf;

?12 other works, 1v, pf

MSS of 40 songs in US-PHu; other MSS in private collections; papers and duplicate MSS in U. of Arkansas, Florida

===Works for Organ=== (supplied by Calvert Johnson)

Adoration in The Organ Portfolio vol. 15/86 (Dec. 1951), Dayton OH: Lorenz Publishing Co., 34–35.

Andante, July 24, 1952

Andantino

Allegretto

Cantilena March 10, 1951

Caprice

Dainty Lass, by November 19, 1936

The Hour Glass [formerly Sandman]. Paired with Retrospection as No. 1

Hour of Peace or Hour of Contentment or Gentle Heart, November 16, 1951

In Quiet Mood [formerly Evening and then Impromptu]. New York: Galaxy Music Corp, 1951 (dated Aug. 7, 1941)

Little Melody

Little Pastorale

Offertory in The Organ Portfolio vol. 17/130 (1953). Dayton OH: Lorenz Publishing Co., 1953

Passacaglia and Fugue, January, 1927

A Pleasant Thought, December 10, 1951

Prelude and Fantasie, by 1942

Retrospection [formerly An Elf on a Moonbeam]. Paired with The Hour Glass as No. 2

Steal Away to Jesus, by November 19, 1936

Suite No. 1, by April 6, 1942

Memory Mist (1949)

Tempo moderato [no title], seriously damaged and possibly incomplete]

Variations on a Folksong

Principal publishers: Fischer, Gamble-Hinged, Handy, McKinley, Presser

Discography

Art Songs by American Composers / Yolanda Marcoulescou-Stern. Gasparo Records, 1993.

Black Diamonds/ Althea Waites. Cambria Records, 1993.

Florence Price: The Oak, Mississippi River Suite, and Symphony No. 3 / Women’s Philharmonic. Koch International Classics, 2001. Reprinted 2008.

Lucille Field Sings Songs by American Women Composers. Cambria Records, 2006.

Negro Speaks of Rivers / Odekhiren Amaize, David Korevaar. Musician’s Showcase, 2000.

Chicago Renaissance Woman: Florence B. Price Organ Works; Calcante CAL 014 1997

Florence B. Price: Concerto in One Movement and Symphony in E minor; Albany TROY1295, 2011.

Florence B. Price: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 (D major - 1939) and 2 (D minor - 1952) / Er-Gene Kahng, Janacek Philharmonic, Ryan Cockerham. Albany TROY1706, 2018.

Florence B. Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 (E minor - 1932) and 4 (D minor - 1945) / Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter. Naxos American Classics, 2018.

Florence B. Price: Dances in the Canebrakes (Nimble Feet / Tropical Noon / Silk Hat and Walking Cane) / Chicago Sinfonietta, Mei-Ann Chen. Album Project W - Works by Woman Composers. Cedille Records, 2019.

Beyond the Traveler: Piano Music by Composers from Arkansas (Sonata in E minor) / Cole Burger, piano. MSR Classics, 2019.

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dippedanddripped · 5 years ago

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Watching Aminé’s “Caroline” music video can evoke vivid high school memories of the days when a freshly minted driver’s license conferred upon its holder the freedom to meet up with friends and do anything — or nothing. The video, like the song, is bubbly and carefree; it documents Aminé and his friends riding around town in a Honda Sedan stocked to the gills with bananas, lounging around in the grass, and watching each other play video games. In that 2016 summer of #BlackBoyJoy in hip-hop (when Chance the Rapper, Lil Yachty, D.R.A.M., Anderson .Paak, Rae Sremmurd, MadeinTYO, and Desiigner also flourished), “Caroline” went quadruple-platinum and helped make Aminé the first rapper ever from Portland, Oregon to become a national star.

The video for “Shimmy,” the lead single from Aminé’s forthcoming album Limbo, is a collage of Portland-specific flexes, a tribute to how far he’s come. He cheeses for the cameras while flanked by a phalanx of lawyers and dances midfield at Providence Park. He stands, perhaps symbolically, on the roof of Mike’s Drive-In (the burger joint where “Caroline” was shot) and trades the Honda for a speedboat zooming up the Willamette River.

Just as importantly, “Shimmy” is a subtle homage to the heavily gentrified areas of northeast Portland, where Aminé — born Adam Daniel to Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrants — grew up. In the video, he meets up with other members of the Portland rap scene plus Yosief Berhe and Jonathan Ressom, his two friends who co-star in all of his videos, to bike en masse down NE Alberta Street. He stops by Kee’s, a popular soul food truck, and heads to Woodlawn Park, his old stomping grounds located a few blocks from his childhood home.

“Woodlawn is the neighborhood that I grew up in,” he tells Highsnobiety over Zoom. “It used to be very much a part of the Black community. It’s kind of turned into a hipster park now, but it’s definitely the first place I got jumped. The first place I had my first fight in. Woodlawn represents a lot of good memories for me and my friends. Like our innocent adolescence.”

Rapid gentrification continues to gut Portland’s Black community, which accounts for less than six percent of the city’s total population. Aminé alluded to the transformation of Woodlawn on his 2017 song “Turf”: “Flipping through my past like I used to flip the phone / They kicking out the Blacks and all the houses getting clones.”

“The gentrification is insane,” he says. “I used to have only Black neighbors. And now my parents only live next to white people. The only reason my parents are still on that block is because, you know, I pay for everything. But it’s not the same for a lot of Black people in Portland.”

His friends Yosief and Jonathan echo this sentiment during a phone interview: “You’re getting chains of dispensaries on the same corners where police would try to nail people for weed,” Jonathan says. “I can go in there, and it’s gonna be a girl in a skirt giving me a dub. Meanwhile, no lie, like six, seven years ago, homies getting locked up doing the same shit on that same corner.”

“People in Portland sometimes have the right intentions,” Yosief adds. “But it really irks my nerves when I go down Mississippi or Albina or through historically Black neighborhoods, and it’s 85 percent white. All the houses have Black Lives Matter signs on the lawn but displaced a bunch of Black families to be there. It’s unfortunate.”

Limbo arrives four years into Aminé’s tenure as a major-label rapper, at a point where he’s established himself, but is still unsure of where to go or how to proceed with his career. “The title came from where I’m at in my life,” he explains. “There are two meanings behind it. I feel like I grew up thinking that once I achieved one level, the next level would be easier to achieve. But as I’ve grown, I’ve come to realize that with every level that I achieve, every level gets harder, just like the game of limbo. It just doesn’t seem to change for me, and it’s honestly made me feel like I’m completely in limbo. I thought the older I get, the wiser I’d get. But I’m figuring it out.”

Bittersweet nostalgia for high school and college years has been a recurring theme in Aminé’s music. In this sense, Limbo picks up where his 2017 debut album Good For You left off. Co-executive produced by Aminé and “Caroline” producer Pasque, it features one song that is entirely dedicated to Woodlawn Park, another to Aminé’s mother. Other songs, including his recent release “RiRi,” wistfully revisit past romances that sputtered. That era, which saw the first, fitful yawns of Aminé’s music career, is fertile terrain for storytelling. “I miss being naïve. I miss hoping, not knowing what your future was looking like,” he told Pigeons & Planes earlier this year. “Just being in your room in college, broke as hell.”

Aminé’s rap career began in the booth of Benson High’s radio broadcasting program, where he and his friends once rapped over Flockaveli beats. “Then we actually realized that Adam was pretty good,” Yosief tells us. He spent summers in New York, working youth camps in the Bronx and holding down internships at Complex and Def Jam — staying with his aunt in Harlem, eating plain leftover rice out of her fridge when food money inevitably got low. After high school, he started putting out mixtapes into a localized scene that Pasque describes as “stuck in the golden age.” Casual co-signs from Damian Lillard (who came to a show) and Kaytranada (who sent free beats) were good omens that also helped him stand out. All the while, he matriculated at Portland State University and lived at home with his parents. PSU is where he met Pasque, and where they made “Caroline.”

“We found out about this classroom inside of the music building that was always left unlocked,” Pasque says. “We had a schedule. I would go to work, and then after I clocked out, I would go immediately to school and work on music all night, basically. And it was like that for about five or six months. And then, eventually, it got to the point where we had a good amount of music, and our manager, Justin, was like, ‘You guys gotta put something out.’ We decided to put out ‘Caroline.’ And after that, it was no looking back.”

“I remember him putting out these little mixtapes, trying to get stuff retweeted, putting freaking fliers on corners, and [getting help from] all our friends in Portland,” Yosief says. “The slow grind. I remember Adam was trending [on Twitter] just in Portland, and it was like a big-ass deal. I remember him having like 1,000, 2,000 views on SoundCloud, to him going like, ‘Hey, this song got two million plays on Spotify, we’re about to make a music video for it.’ All of us still broke.”

Weeks after “Caroline” came out and started racking up gaudy streaming numbers, Vevo offered to fly Aminé out to New York to record a video performance of the single. He was in his senior year, and the video shoot conflicted with a finance final, but he decided to go anyways.

“I literally was told that if I failed this final, I would fail the class. So, I was like, ‘I don’t give a fuck.’ I just didn’t care,” he says. “I hated college. I knew it wasn’t for me, but I still kept doing it because I have strict African parents that I lived with. There was no other alternative for me to live under [their roof] without going to school.”

Aminé’s affable, low-key charm and new deal with Republic Records facilitated his smooth entry into the mainstream. The summer after “Caroline” blew up, Malia Obama requested to meet him after his set at Lollapalooza, and Young Thug called him a “young legend” backstage at a European music festival. “I didn’t even know if [Thug] knew who I was,” he says. He relocated to Los Angeles, where he has lived a charmed life, ensconced in a network of the city’s coolest, smartest, and most famous young artists. Late last year, Issa Rae — who co-starred in his 2017 “Spice Girl” video — asked him to guest star in Insecure as a dumb guy named Darnell. “I moved to LA just because, like, half of the features I get are just because me and the homies are in the studio,” Aminé explains. “Like, I can text Vince [Staples] and he’ll pull up to the studio. Money can’t buy timing. That’s pretty much the only reason I’m here.”

Still, to a great extent, Aminé strives for anonymity rather than celebrity. “When people want to go to, like, 1 OAK, or the club, I’d rather just go to a small bar with a couple of my good friends and chill,” he says. He adds that “normal things” have helped him stay sane during quarantine — like meeting friends in the park with food, or his morning ritual of smoking a joint and walking his 11-month-old goldendoodle Oliver.

This aversion to the limelight extends to his relationship with Portland, where he is something of a modern cultural icon. He doesn’t go out to restaurants with his parents anymore, for the sake of their privacy. He expresses his hope that he could signal boost Portland’s Black businesses and the city’s overall profile in the music industry, rather than don the cape of Captain Portland: “I’m just such an indoor person, and I don’t love that kind of pressure on me. Like, I was never really prepared for this type of career.”

Aminé intends to eventually build a massive compound in Portland, with a studio and acres of land. It’s likely to happen one day — just don’t hold him to it. Public expectations can be dangerous. “The main thing to take away from [this album] is, I’m still just a guy figuring it out,” he says. “I don’t have the answers. And I don’t want fans to look at me for every answer. I’m just a guy, literally. I’m just in limbo.”

Limbo is out August 7 via Republic. Pre-order the record here.

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Giuseppe Penone at Fort Mason, San Francisco

October 8, 2019

GIUSEPPE PENONE Fort Mason October 24, 2019–October 25, 2020 Great Meadow, Upper Fort Mason, San Francisco __________ The bifurcations of the trees that appear so intimately human to us . . . The bifurcations of the fingers, by their movement through space, form the branches, the roots, and by the succession of actions in the same points, construct the branches and trunk of the plant. The woodland landscape is the action of sculpture. —Giuseppe Penone Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy have partnered with Gagosian to present a yearlong outdoor installation by Giuseppe Penone through the Art in the Parks program. Fort Mason is a historic site within Golden Gate National Recreation Area where hundreds of trees were planted by the military between fifty and one hundred years ago. The National Park Service (NPS) stewards the site’s cultural landscape. Bringing art into the context of our national parks not only allows us to share these spectacular and inspirational works with park visitors; Giuseppe Penone at Fort Mason invites us to take a closer look at our parks’ relationship with nature through the site’s history and at the ongoing stewardship of preservation and conservation. —Charles Strickfaden, Chief of Communications, Golden Gate National Recreation Area From his earliest site-specific sculptures made in the forests around his hometown in Piedmont, Italy, Penone has adapted elements from the natural world, exploring the deep evolutionary interdependence between sculpture and nature across geological time. The dramatic installation in the Great Meadow at Fort Mason is Penone’s first public work on the West Coast. In Idee di pietra (Ideas of Stone) (2004), large river stones nestle in the high branches of a bronze sculpture cast from a tree, as if weighing down the natural reach of the tree towards the light. The tree stands tall and straight; its narrow silhouette supporting the stones high into the air suggests a force resisting the planetary burden of gravity. A second cast bronze tree, La logica del vegetale (The Logic of the Vegetal) (2012), lies on its side, its gnarled root system fully exposed. Five living saplings native to California (valley oak, coast live oak, bigleaf maple, and two California bay laurels) will be planted at the tips of the sculpture’s bare branches, allowing exuberant growth to sprout up around their bronze counterpart. The mission of Art in the Parks is to provide programs that are transformative, unexpected, and inspirational. We’re delighted that Giuseppe Penone’s work will be on public display at Fort Mason and related works are being exhibited this fall at Gagosian downtown. Our hope is that these concurrent exhibits further illuminate how Golden Gate National Recreation Area serves as a backdrop to all kinds of beauty and meaningful visitor experiences. —Kate Bickert, Senior Director, Parks Conservancy

The areas protected by the National Park Service have long provided inspiration for artists; in return, the park sites have used art to deepen the public’s enjoyment, appreciation, and understanding of these precious natural resources. Thus Penone’s compelling sculptural investigation of the perpetual give-and-take between humans and nature offers a poetic analogy to the evolution of the park itself. Giuseppe Penone was born in 1947 in Garessio, Italy, and currently lives and works in Paris and Turin, Italy. His career began in the 1960s with the Arte Povera movement in his native Italy. This radical group of artists employed “poor,” unconventional elements and raw materials to question cultural assumptions and evoke a preindustrial age, critiquing dehumanizing systems of industrialization and mechanization, as well as contemporaneous art movements. Penone’s earliest works made in the forests around his hometown in Piedmont marked the beginning of an enduring fascination with the arboreal realm that is still prevalent in his work today. Collections include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Exhibitions include Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, Belgium (2010); Drawings and Sculptures, De Pont Museum, Netherlands (2010); 22 Opere a Versailles, Château de Versailles, France (2013); Ideas of Stone (Idee di Pietra), Madison Square Park, New York (2013–14); Being the River, Repeating the Forest, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015); Anafora, Reggia di Venaria Reale, Italy (2016); and Matrice / Matrix, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Rome (2017). In 2017, Germination, Penone’s permanent, site-specific installation for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, was presented at the inauguration of the museum. Penone has received numerous accolades, including the Praemium Imperiale, Japan Arts Association (2014). About Gagosian Larry Gagosian opened his first gallery in Los Angeles in 1980, expanding his reach to New York five years later. Since then, Gagosian has evolved into a global network of seventeen exhibition spaces in North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition to its vibrant contemporary art program featuring leading international artists, Gagosian also presents unparalleled historical exhibitions, including a series of groundbreaking, popular surveys on the art of Pablo Picasso. The gallery publishes scholarly exhibition catalogues, artist monographs, catalogues raisonnés, and the Gagosian Quarterly, an innovative and engaging magazine on the gallery’s art and artists as well as related topics in contemporary art. About Art in the Parks Giuseppe Penone at Fort Mason is a presentation of Art in the Parks—a cooperative effort of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Presidio Trust, and the Headlands Center for the Arts—and Gagosian. The mission of Art in the Parks is to provide programs that introduce visitors to creative experiences that are transformative, unexpected, and inspirational. Recent programming such as @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Big Blue Whale at Crissy Field, and PianFrancisco at Fort Point helps visitors connect with the history and stories of national parks. Learn more at parksconservancy.org/art. About the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy is the nonprofit membership organization that supports the Golden Gate National Parks. Since 1981, the Parks Conservancy has provided over $550 million in aid for transformations, habitat restorations, research and conservation, volunteer and youth engagement, and interpretive and educational programs. Learn more at parksconservancy.org. About Golden Gate National Recreation Area Golden Gate National Recreation Area, situated in and around San Francisco, is the most visited park site in the National Park Service, hosting more than 15 million visitors in 2018. A diverse park with abundant recreational opportunities, as well as natural, cultural, and scenic resources, it encompasses more than 82,000 acres across three counties. The park also administers two other NPS areas: Fort Point National Historic Site, a Civil War–era fortress built on the northernmost point of land in San Francisco, and Muir Woods National Monument, which comprises an impressive stand of old-growth coastal redwoods in Marin County. For more information, visit nps.gov/goga. _____ Giuseppe Penone, Idee di pietra (Ideas of Stone), 2004, bronze and river stones, 40 feet 11 3/8 inches × 17 feet 10 1/4 inches × 17 feet 1 1/8 inches (12.5 × 5.4 × 5.2 m), installation view, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, 2008 © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

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142 - Ufo Sighting Reports

As abpve, so below. As for the middle, Well, who knows.

Welcome to Night Vale.

We start today, as we often do, with the latest UFO sighting reports in the community.

Friday, 5:20 AM. The staff of the Desert Spring Tuberculosis Research center and Medication Retreat reported a luminous object out over the neighborhood across the highway. The object resembled a straw hat and had an apparent speed of 150 miles per hour, and apparent altitude of 2,000 feet. The staff recalled that the object illuminated the ground brightly, as they could see Leah Shapiro at the window of her house, receiving a phone call and then collapsing to her living room floor with a hand over her mouth. This was perfectly visible despite the sun not having yet risen.

Friday, 5:28 AM. Leann Hart, editor of the Night Vale Daily Journal, was preparing for a day of hard-hitting journalism. She does this using a dummy that she has set up in the back yard and labeled with a sign saying “Pivot to video”. She was just about to launch into her usual routine of hacking at this dummy for two and a half hours with a pair of hatchets made from pure silver, while screaming in fury, when she was stopped by a sight in the sky. An object the size and shape of a bus, and also having all other characteristic of a bus, was soaring over her. It flew at an apparent altitude of 500 feet, making no sound at all, and Leann tracked it for several minutes before losing sight of it. She said that she reacted like anyone would: by flinging a hatchet at it and shouting: “You’re not welcome here.”

Friday, 5:34 AM. My niece Janice was up early, because it was finally time to take the pre-SAT, and she didn’t want to feel hurried. She had been with herself long enough to know that feeling hurried kills any sense of momentum or order for the rest of the day, and makes her feel like she’s trying and failing to catch up with herself. Better to force herself out of bed into the cold of a winter desert morning than to feel behind herself later on. She had gone out into the front yard to get a bit of fresh air, and had waved to Leah Shapiro who was rushing out of her house and did not seem to notice the greeting, when Janice saw the craft. A red ellipsoidal object rose from behind the line of houses. At first, Janice thought it might just be a particularly quick sunrise, but soon realized the object was only the size of a small table and was right above her. Remembering what Tamika had taught her during team militia camp, Janice grabbed a heavy stone from the yard, but the object was already withdrawing. Janice yelled to ask if Leah had seen it too, but Leah was driving away. So Janice went back inside and made herself a smoothie. She feels she did pretty good on the pre-SAT.

Friday, 5:41 AM. Dana Cardinal, no longer mayor, who carries with her what she has done, but now also carries the possibility of what she could do next, was driving around the city. She does this sometimes, an aimless circle of a town that once had been her responsibility, but now is not and never will be again. The town wihout a mayor. This is a problem, but it is not her problem. She had just been passed by Leah Shapiro, who was going some 20 miles over the speed limit, when Dana spotted three sparkling objects in an equilateral formation, approximately 20 feet from each other at an apparent altitude of 100 feet. She shrugged and turned back to her aimless driving. This was no longer her problem.

Friday, 5:53 AM. Sarah Sultan, who is the president of the Night Vale Community College and also a smooth, fist-sized river rock, was driving to work. She had to get in early because of an all-department meeting to address the lingering effects of the rabbit infestation the college suffered five years ago. And she was still fuming from yesterday when the DMV had threatened to take away her license on the ground that no one understood how a smooth, fist-sized river rock was even capable of operating a car. She had had to take the driving test all over again, and while she got a perfect score and retained her license, that had been time robbed from her that she would never get back. Leah Shapiro, ahead of her in the lane, slowed down to turn into the Night Vale Community Hospital parking lot, and Sarah swerved around her, unwilling to wait for the turn to complete. As she did that, she saw a spherical body in the sky at an elevation of about 1,000 feet. It was a dozen centimeters across in apparent size and whirled around in a small circle of 30 feet in apparent diameter before rising up into the clouds.

Friday, 8:09 AM. Nilanjana Sikdar stood just outside of the hospital. She was there for a minor procedure, but it didn’t feel minor to her. She didn’t like hospitals, didn’t like the implications of what might happen there, didn’t like the doctors that appear and disappear randomly from room to room, and didn’t like thinking about all that can misfire and misalign in her own body. She sighed, looked up at the building, and saw through the window Leah Shapiro with tears rolling down her face. She was holding the hand of someone in a hospital bed, and she was telling the patient a story, it seemed. Perhaps reminiscing about some shared event from much earlier in both of their lives. More importantly, Nilanjana saw two flying objects in the reflection of the glass. She turned to see them fly west by north to north by east, radiant blue in the center and red around the edges. Then, knowing that not even UFOs could save her from necessary medical treatment, she turned to the building and trudged inside.

Friday, 11:15 AM. High school senior Josh Crayton was in the Ralphs parking lot showing off to his friends by turning himself into any tree they named. “Oak,” they shouted and he was an oak. “Spruce,” another shouted. “Too easy,” he told them. “Reginald,” one said and Josh took the form of Reginald from the nearby Whispering Forest. When he was in that tree form, he could see all the way over the roof of the Ralphs, and he saw a luminous flying object that’s upper half was covered in a curling mist or smoke. It was 40 degrees in elevation above the horizon and approximately the brightness of a new moon on a cloudless night. “Whoa,” said Josh. “Man,” said one of his friends. “It’s so weird to see a tree talk like that.”

Friday, 12:02 PM. Lorelei Alvarez had been called into work. It was never good news when she was called into work. No one ever rang her phone and said, “Hello, is this Lorelei Alvarez, Night Vale coroner? We’re super happy to need your help!” No. It is always the same hushed tones and hushed pain, tight and business like. She was thinking all of this as she had her coffee and steeled herself for what she would have to go do, when she saw an object in the midday sky. It left a multicolored trail as it moved, going to the west slowly and finally disappearing. “That doesn’t help me at all,” she said and poured the rest of her coffee down the sink.

Friday, 12:10 PM. Tamika Flynn was on her way to the hospital to check in on 14-year-old Gerald Sanders who had been injured at teen militia camp while practicing evasive maneuvers, which is what they call dodgeball. He had badly twisted his ankle and even though Tamika knew it wasn’t her fault, she felt guilt all the same, and then felt guilt over her guilt, as she knew she should not feel guilt over things that were not her fault. As she entered the hospital, she looked across the lot back where Leah Shapiro was standing, tears covering her face. Leah was standing at the parking payment machine, her lips moving soundlessly, her eyes staring blankly at the screen in front of her, and her hands frozen at her side. More importantly, behind Leah, a silver star shining conspicuously in the day-lit sky, moving from east to west, passing in and out of clouds, and changing altitude constantly.

Friday, 1:20 PM. Deb, the sentient patch of haze, was on her way out of a meeting with her representation. She was unhappy with the advertising gjobs they had been securing for her, finding that nothing they were sending her out on caused enough harm to humanity. “Get me out there selling the really toxic and dangerous stuff, something with side effects or at least some carcinogens,” she told them as she pounded the table with her fists and stormed out. An action that was difficult due to her ethereal and fistless nature. As she left, she saw a cylindrical UFO, a greenish bronze with a three to one ratio of length to thickness. “Oh buzz off, buster,” she told it.

Friday, 2:27 PM. Amber Akinye was taking a break from her job at the Diego and Diego and Diego and Diego and Diego funeral home. The one that was opened recently on Araburus Road by those very nice quintuplets. Amber was exhausted after talking Leah Shapiro through all the options. The funeral would happen in just two days, and there was so much to do and to decide. Amber thought that Leah was holding on pretty well, but still, it was a lot for both of them. Maybe Amber was too empathetic to work a job like this. She hated to think of empathy as weakness, but she only had so much energy to give. As she was thinking this, she saw a golden colored oblong at a high altitude in the sky above, moving at a steady speed in a five-degree upward climb. “I just got this job,” Amber thought, “I should give it more. I’ll give it more time.”

Fridya, 5:15 PM. Lieutenant Regis of Unit 7 of the Local National Guard Station and KFC Combo Store was standing guard as usual, and witnessed an (anchor) shaped ring of light to the southwest, and at apparent altitude of 200 feet. He waved. “Enjoy the weekend!” he shouted. “See ya on Monday!”

Friday, 8:09 PM. Janice Rio from down the street was having dinner at the Moonlite All-Nite Diner. She had ordered a Greek salad with chicken on it and was feeling comfortably superior to Leah Shapiro in the next booth over, who was on her second plate of fries. As she sat with this great sense of self, Janice glanced outside and saw a yellow ball of light with a diameter of more than 20 inches hanging in the sky. It hung silently for two minutes and then disappeared. “Good riddance,” Janice muttered and returned to her salad.

We pause briefly from our UFO sighting reports to take in something far stranger: The weather report.

[“Color TV” by Answering Machine, https://answeringmachine.bandcamp.com/]

Saturday, 12:01 AM. Leah Shapiro parked in front of her house, but she didn’t find the will to go in. What was there for her but the echo of a daily routine that would see no more days? So instead she drove out to the scrublands. It was chilly, but that felt good to her. It felt like she had been uncomfortably warm for a long while, and this was the first time that the temperature had been right. (-) bit at her ankles, she didn’t have the right shoes for this kind of walk, but here she was, walking. The night was completely clear. The moon was a careful situation. As she walked, Leah tried her best to sort through her feelings. It was obvious to her which feeling she should have in this moment. Mourning, a wild grief, a sadness that would never be cured by however many decades of slow forgetting she had left. This was what others had assumed she was feeling and so those were the emotions they managed. “This must be quite difficult,” the doctor had said professionally. “I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m sure you loved her very much,” the woman at the funeral home had said empathetically. “Oh my god, you poor thing, you must be bereft!” said Laura at the Moonlite All-Nite Diner with a deep sincerity, and then she had taken Leah’s order of us many French fries as can fit on a plate. Laura had brought two plates.

But the truth is that Leah did not feel mourning, grief, or sadness. She supposed that those feelings would not come, she hoped they did, because she didn’t know what it would mean for herself if they did not. However, emotions are not domestic creatures that can be summoned with a whistle. They are wild and they move as they please. So try as she might to access her sadness, Leah couldn’t. What she could find, to her horror and shame, was relief. She felt so relieved, and she felt free. She felt absolutely free and completely relieved, and she felt that she must be the worst person in the world for feeling those things. “What is wrong with me?” she said, and nothing that heard her answered except a lone coyote, who started and fled to a warm groove in the earth, where he felt safe from predators. There was nothing wrong with Leah. She was free, and she felt relieved. Later she would feel sadness, sadness that’s vast shape would hardly be conveyed by such a simple word, but not now. Now she walked until she couldn’t see her car, until the lights of Night Vale disappeared behind the hill, until it seemed possible that no other person lived on the Earth. As she stood there, a silver craft descended from the sky. It rotated above her, brilliant, multicolored lights coming from windows on all sides. She watched it hover, and then watched as it rose back up into the sky, until it was indistinguishable from all the other wandering stars. “Huh,” she said, and began the long walk back to her car.

This has been UFO sighting reports.

Good night, Night Vale, Good night.

Today’s proverb: In Europe, instead of cell phone, they say mobile. Instead of arugula, they say rocket. Instead of letting you die because of lack of health insurance, they take care of you when you’re sick. It’s a weird place.

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fan-clan-fun · 6 years ago

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ForestClan 2.0

these guys again… always improving on it! i thought about doing allegiances too, but tbh i can’t decide on what cats i want/what i want them to look like, so that’s not gonna be included sorry. i’m also not that great at describing stuff but i’m going to try my best.

Wonderful I enjoy seeing what people have for their fan clans!

Territory: ForestClan lives in a temperate deciduous forest, with a wide variety of tree species. They see themselves as the trees, adaptable and changing. Their territory is home to many plant species as well, making it a prime spot to collect herbs and such.

Camp: The ForestClan camp is accessed through a large, moss-covered fallen tree trunk, from long ago. It’s big and wide enough for an adult cat to fit through. Upon entering, the camp is covered by a canopy of trees, and in the center is a towering oak tree called the Great Oak where the leader makes their announcements and sleeps in, as well. The dens are nestled around the Great Oak, which the clan feels serves as a guardian, sent by their ancestors to watch over them. The seer’s den is nestled beneath the roots of the Great Oak, and has been long since served the seers of ForestClan. Apprentices sleep across from the seer den, with warriors on the other side. The nursery is well-hidden behind several clumps of ferns and brambles, the inside is well insulated and well protected during the colder moons. The elder’s den is located near a shady corner close to the prey pile. Both the nursery and elder’s den are closest to the camp entrance.

I really enjoy the camp description! I have always loved camps that were all centered around one tree, it just gives it so much character. Especially when it becomes an entity of its own. My only concern is if the kit and elders den are closest to the entrance does that make them the most vulnerable to attack? Or is that the most well defended part of the camp?

Landmarks: The Great Oak - a large, towering oak tree that’s the heart of ForestClan camp where the leader sleeps and makes announcements. It’s rumored that it’s branches reach the sky and that its roots reach down far into the earth. It’s very sturdy and has lived through many seasons and years of toil. One can even see it when atop a tree in MarshClan territory!

The Glade - a glade where apprentices learn to do battle training, storytelling, and various other events are held here as well. This is also a prime spot for herbs for seers.

The Snakerocks - located beside the river that runs between Forest and Marsh territory, it’s a prime sunning spot for both cats - and is also home to many dangerous snakes.

Sounds like some pretty basic locations. You could also expand and add a few more, even if its just the basic borders, more landmarks is always nice.

Prey: Birds - Cardinal, Sparrow, Dove, Woodpecker, Grackle, Warbler, etc Mammals - Mice, Rats, Squirrels, Shrews, Chipmunks, Rabbits Reptiles + Amphibians - Lizards, Frogs, some snakes Other: various bugs and insects Predators: Foxes, Snakes, Falcon, Eagle, Harrier, Owls, Raccoon, Coyote, Hawk, Vulture, Osprey, Domestic Dogs (when humans come through w their dogs)

Clan Appearance: Longhair is very common, shorthaired cats less so. Brown tabbies are very common, red is uncommon, cream is rare. Dilute colors are uncommon, white spotting is low to nonexistent. Solid black cats are looked favorably at, as their dark pelt helps aid them in hunting at night (they have a legend about how the night sky gave part of its pelt to a cat and this helped them in catching more prey when their clan was in need.) Colorpoint is, surprisingly, common…ish! Not as common as brown tabbies, but it still is there. Tortoiseshells are also looked favorably. Most common type of tabby is the mackerel tabby, though classic may pop up from time to time. The silver gene is almost non-existent; ForestClan, at one point, had an abundance of it, and kits w the silver gene were culled or left to die in the territory (if U remember that star thing i posted last time?? that’s where this is from!). Eye colors are commonly hazel, yellow or green. Their coats are plush and thick. Their shoulders are broad and their legs are muscular - they’re beefcakes lol. Scars are heavily favored in ForestClan, as it signals that you are a strong cat and that you have survived; they also just find them pretty in a morbid sort of way. Along with their tufted ears and hardened expression, ForestClan gives off a very intimidating vibe… which is how they like it lol.

Mmmm broad shouldered tabbies, I just LOVE it. Strong beefy babies are my kryptonite, though I also go for the opposite too. As for coloration these all make pretty good sense for their territory.

Clan Skills: Climbing is a skill that ForestClan prides themselves on. They are known for their battle prowess as well, and are said to be terrifying to face in battle. They have a keen sense of direction and know their way through the paths the forest has laid out - it’s surprisingly easy to get lost in a forest if you don’t know the layout of it; kits are taken on ‘field trips’ at a young age and learn to navigate the paths in the forest. By the time an apprentice is ready to graduate to warrior, one of their 'trials’ is to navigate through the forest to get to the glade where they will then be given their proper warrior name (or more tests… haven’t decided yet). Despite their large size, these cats have good balancing skills which is a surprise to many.

I like this a lot. Its super important for a clan to begin educating their young at least a bit before apprenticeship. I always thought that keeping your kits cooped up in camp is just a bad idea, so helping them learn basic navigation so warriors dont have to be constantly watching their apprentices to make sure they dont get lost. Even if its just a basic “how to navigate to camp or an important landmark so we can come find you” course.

Clan Culture: ForestClan value community, strength, and wisdom. The heroes in their stories often have very Sparta-esque qualities. ForestClan places much value on their senior warriors, as well. To be a senior warrior is seen as a wise and (to some) more attractive cat. Elders are held in high esteem as well, and have a special ceremony to acknowledge them. ForestClan also highly values motherhood, and queens are treated very well (some joke even better than the leader!) and with utmost respect. It’s customary to bow to a queen, elder or senior warrior and the three groups form a council that, along w the seer and the leader (called Matriarch in ForestClan) makes several important decisions. A Matriarch is trained in the bloodlines of the Clan, and must know these - memory is very important to all cats, but especially so to ForestClan.

The militant clan is always an interesting one to play around with, but Im very interested in the Matriarch, since I know Ive posted about matriarchies on my blog before and I do really enjoy them. I have a similar dynamic in my own Bloomclan, though they place a much higher respect on the motherhood and teaching aspects than the battle aspects. But I really appreciate clans with councils, who can help decide as a group for the clan.

Clan Personality: To Outsiders, ForestClan can come off as appearing as a closed-off, tight-knit and very intimidating group that seems to have no love for anyone outside of their circle. And… they would be right! ForestClan is very tight-knit group that tolerates no nonsense; to speak to one would be similar to speaking with a military official. They are direct, blunt, and are prone to giving commands than engaging in social niceties. While they can be polite, they much prefer to get to the point of the matter. Their sense of humor is very dry, if it’s present at all. Among themselves, they can and are gentle, yet firm. They expect the best of out everyone - even if a warrior has no defining skill, they are still expected to help out - whether that be storytelling, watching kits, helping a seer, or den repairs. ForestClan expects everyone to help, and if not… you are welcome to see the door.

Its a very fair culture I would say, you either contribute or you find somewhere else to go, but they dont seem to consider those without “traditional” skills to be less of an asset. And their attitudes align with a group trying to survive in a difficult environment, you dont have too much time to waste.

Thank you again for contributing! I do enjoy replying to these when I have the time.

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“What thought processes led you to the second floor of Abbot Hall in fall 1965?” he asked.

August 9, 2021

I recently had an e-mail conversation with my first college roommate, m'boy Eric, of Las Vegas, originally from dynamic Caro, Michigan. He concluded his communication with the question above. I soon banged out the answer (below). I intentionally heavied it up with details to give him some context and cause a few laughs. Then I decided to post my answer (edited for this space) because other friends and family may find it interesting and mildly amusing. So here goes:

Why MSU? That's a very good question.

The neighborhood where I grew up had dozens and dozens of young kids running up and down the streets on both sides of Tireman, the "busy street" where I lived. Some of the kids were two, three, four years older than me. Most of the "big kids" played sports and I soon found that I could hang with them. This exposed me to their humor, early rock 'n' roll, the Tigers, the Lions and "competition." All the while my ears were wide open.

As perhaps a third-grader, I got the impression from the older kids that Michigan State was considered "cooler" than Michigan. It seemed as though the Spartans beat Michigan in football almost every year. Which was basically true in those days. About a year later, in 1957, I was inside of Voltz's Drug Store (a small, cozy place on the corner of Warren and Reuter) where I often purchased pop, Popsicles, balsa wood airplanes, comic books and more. A radio was playing in the background there and I remember hearing a sports report about a speedy MSU halfback, Walt Kowalczyk, having a big game against some team. So I began to further equate Michigan State with "cool," because they had a great runner who was Polish.

The Michigan State basketball team made it to the Final Four, playing eventual champion North Carolina, that same year. (I was vaguely aware of Wilt Chamberlain, whose Kansas team played the San Francisco Dons in the other semi-final.) I was in Wyandotte that weekend with my folks (visiting friends of the family, including their son "Stash" Kornacki--gotta love those Polish names) while the MSU vs North Carolina game was on TV. The Spartans lost in overtime. All I knew was that the more I got into sports--watching it, playing it--the more the Spartans seemed like a power. I started envisioning myself attending school there. (I just assumed I'd be going to college.)

I was in the sixth grade during the 1958-59 school year. We had a wonderful, strong-on-fundamentals, progressively-minded basketball coach. (We ran laps in winter boots, used medicine balls in passing drills, wore plastic "half-glasses" that enabled you to see ahead but not see the ball when you dribbled, etc.) In those days, the metropolitan Detroit CYO was the second largest in the country (after Chicago's) with about 200 Catholic grade schools. Anyway, after winning our league championship, we advanced in a tournament of league champions to the metropolitan Detroit finals, where we lost to perennial grade school basketball power Grosse Pointe St. Paul, 22-17, at Pulaski Recreation Center in Hamtramck. (I got into a fist fight with a St. Paul kid during the first half but did not get kicked out of the game.) Now I was beginning to have delusions that I was going to be a college basketball player. As a 12-year-old who devoured basketball magazines, my top three college choices were Purdue, Bradley and Michigan State.

Two years later during eighth grade, our CYO basketball team won its league again. We got into the big metro city tournament, but lost in the westside final to Royal Oak Shrine. I don't remember the score, but we got slaughtered. The kids from Shrine were huge. They seemed like grown men. I think one kid on that team went on to play football at Michigan (his name escapes me); another guy, Jim Seymour, went on to play football at Notre Dame. Yes, that Jim Seymour of MSU-ND 10-10 tie fame. After going up against those guys, I began to doubt that I was going to be playing college basketball.

In the spring of that year, our "lay teacher," Mr. Brimo, brought in a college student, Bill Fundaro, who had graduated from St. Al's and was the quarterback of its football team when he was a senior. (BTW, you probably saw Bill sitting on a solitary chair at the backstop behind home plate at Tiger Stadium thousands of times on TV, because during most of his 50-plus years as an usher there, he retrieved foul balls off the screen and ran new balls out to the umpire). Bill talked about college life in general and Marquette University in particular, because that's where he went to school.

Meanwhile, Michigan State continued to be successful against Michigan in football. And I was picking up that coach Duffy Daugherty was as funny as a standup comedian. Just as many young kids thought U-M was the cool school during the '70s and '80s, after Bo Schembechler resurrected its football program, I thought Michigan State was that kind of place during the '50s and '60s.

I was either a sophomore or junior in high school when our basketball coach took us to East Lansing to see the state finals at Jenison Fieldhouse. The whole team, as well as friends Joe McCracken and Gary Pearson (who did not play basketball), stayed in rooms on campus at the Kellogg Center. On the first afternoon, Pearson walked through the Kellogg Center's kitchen and came back to our room with a cart stacked with trays of cream pies. But I took a walk across campus and visited what I think was known as the Big Ten Drug Store at the corner of Grand River and either Abbot Road or M.A.C. Hoo boy (a phrase I picked up from Free Press sports columnist George Puscas), that experience, walking across campus—with its old buildings, tall leafy trees and beautiful coeds--was everything I envisioned a college campus to be. I was pretty much hooked.

Early senior year, when it was time to start sending applications to college, I was at the home of my friend Garry Faja. His brother Art, a St. Al's guy who went to Wayne State, was there. So was Art's friend, Gene Balawajder, another St. Al's guy, who ran track and cross country for MSU. We started talking about “college” and Gene asked me what I planned to study. I said journalism. Gene loved Michigan State, but he said that U-M might be a better place for something like that. So the following week I went to the high school counselor's office and picked up copies of both the MSU and U-M course catalogs. I read about journalism in the MSU guide, which was clear, concise, well written. I read about J-school in the U-M guide, but I found it to be not so well organized, not particularly well written. That was it. U-M was off my list.

I had it in my head that I should apply to three schools--sort of like getting three bids on a remodeling job. If Michigan State didn't accept me, maybe I could go to one of the other schools. So in addition to MSU, my sentimental favorite, I applied to Marquette University because Bill Fundaro had made it sound so good, as well as the University of Detroit, the local school. (I applied there and not Wayne State because U-D had far superior basketball teams and produced players like All-American Dave DeBusschere.)

Well, I got accepted to all three. However, both Marquette and U-D, private schools, wanted more money to take the enrollment process a step farther. To hell with that, I thought. So I rejoiced about being accepted by MSU with my girlfriend at the time, Leslie Klein (salutatorian of our class), who had also been accepted to MSU.

The next thing I knew, in September of 1965, my Mom and Dad were delivering me to the front door of Abbot Hall in our family's 1963 Pontiac Bonneville. They left me at room 271, never to return to campus again. When I initially got there, I think you were at Wonders Hall visiting your girlfriend, Cindy. I don't recall when you came back to the room, I don't recall initially meeting you. But I do remember the moment I met our other roommate, "Bop" Roller. I asked him what his major was. I thought he said, "…egg major." So I asked again, "What did you say?" Once again I thought I heard “egg major." I said, "Okay," thinking how interesting it was that one could major in eggs...when in fact he was saying, "ag major..." Who knew he meant agriculture?

So that is the how and why of my decision to enroll at Michigan State. And I stand by my story.

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BEAVER DAM (BEAV)

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TOWNSBALTIMORE, HUNT VALLEYLAT, LON lat=39.47931, lon=-76.65703(source: DeLorme) (accuracy:exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERQuarry TYPEQuarry DESCRIPTION This is a commercial swim club with some unique features. A filled quarry with diving floats and rope swings. See their web site for fees, hours, etc: BEAVER DAM SWIM CLUB. Things have unfortunately changed here - I received this in 6/2005: 'Thanks for your website. I was a season pass holder at Beaver Dam Swimming Club in MD from 1991 to 2002. In early 2002 they closed off about 1/4 of the shimming hole. In 2003 to present they closed off more than 3/4 of the hole. Now only the corner is open near the rope swing, even the cliffs are roped off. The roped off portion includes one of the logs. The reason for closing it off was 1) lost lawsuits and 2) Baltimore County regulations. My problem (aside from missing my summer swimming) is that neither Baltimore Magazine(who listed it last month) , your website, or the Beaver Dam website(link below) mention this. In fact they post old pictures on their website that indicate that long closed portions of the swimming hole are open. I wish you would indicate this on your website.' AREASNone SANCTIONOfficial FEEYes FACILITIES Picnic tables, rest rooms, snack bar ACTIVITIES Swimming, Diving, Rope Swing PHONE(410)785-1826 CAMPINGUnknown BATHING SUITSRequired DIRECTIONS From Baltimore, take I-95 N to I-695 W toward Towson. Take I-83 north to exit 18 (Warren Rd. ) go left at Beaver Dam Rd. CONFIDENCEHighly confident VERIFIED no DATE UPDATED6/22/2005

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BETTERTON BEACH (BETT)

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TOWNSCHESTERTOWN, BETTERTON LAT, LON lat=39.37083, lon=-76.06667(source: Topozone) (accuracy:approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERSassafras River TYPERiver (Tidal) DESCRIPTION A public, sandy County beach on Sassafras River where it empties into the Chesapeake Bay. This is a tidal river, like swimming in the Bay, but in years of normal rainfall the water here is too fresh for the jellyfish that plague the lower Chesapeake Bay. Check before you swim here - there are sometimes pollution alerts for this part of the bay. Betterton Beach Web Site. AREASEastern Shore SANCTIONOfficial County beach FEENo FACILITIES Picnic tables, bath house, free parking. County Picnic Pavilion, restaurant overlooking bay called Five Rivers Tavern, snack bar. Country store called the Still Pond Store with sandwiches etc., located in Still Pond, 3 miles from beach. ACTIVITIES Swimming, canoe-kayak and cartop boat launching, fishing (state license needed). PHONEUnknown CAMPINGTry Bay Country Campground, near Rock Hall, or Duck Neck Campground south of Chestertown 410-778-3070 BATHING SUITSRequired DIRECTIONS From Chestertown (on Maryland's Eastern Shore) take RT 213 north then RT 297 north to Worton. Turn right on RT 298 east. Turn left on RT 292 west. Turn left in Still Pond. Betterton is 3 miles from the crossroads. CONFIDENCEHighly confident VERIFIED Yes, 6/99 DATE UPDATED6/2010

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CAMP HARDING PARK (CAMH)

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TOWNSHAGERSTOWN, BERKELEY SPRINGS (WV), PECKTONVILLE LAT, LON lat=39.66924, lon=-78.04293(source: map) (accuracy:approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERLicking Creek TYPECreek DESCRIPTIONThis from a visitor:� Now a county park, with long-time swimming hole adjacent to park where the slope of the creek gets deeper and deeper slowly like a large Olympic pool. Maybe 8-10 foot deep at the hole. At times the health department will post swimming is dangerous (too many farms north and south). We swam there as kids and now as adults.. incredible beauty. Named Camp Harding after the president who would camp there. There's a photo of Harding Firestone and Henry Ford all camping there together.. not sure if photo is online anywhere. County park does not include swimming hole so it does not list it as such. Holes sits adjacent to the park. At times there's a rope swing off a huge old oak tree.. way too much fun.' CAMP HARDING PARK WEB SITE. AREASCamp Harding Park SANCTIONUnofficial (swimming hole is not actually in the park) FEENone FACILITIESAt county park ACTIVITIES Water play, Swimming PHONEUnknown CAMPINGNone at site. BATHING SUITSCustomary DIRECTIONS From Hagerstown, take RT 40 west (parallels I-70) for about 20 miles, turn right onto Pectonville Rd and go about 1 mile then turn right into Camp Harding Park. The swimming hole is just behind (south of) the park. No better directions. CONFIDENCEPretty confident VERIFIED No DATE UPDATED2/2013

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CASCADE LAKE (CASC)

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TOWNSWESTMINSTER, HAMPSTEAD LAT, LON lat=39.61636, lon=-76.89000(source: Topozone) (accuracy:exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERUnknown TYPELake DESCRIPTIONCASCADE LAKE WEB SITE. AREASNone SANCTIONOfficial FEEYes, see web site FACILITIESAll ACTIVITIES Swimming, water slide, petting zoo, fishing PHONE(410) 374-9111 CAMPINGNone at site. BATHING SUITSRequired DIRECTIONS From Baltimore take: I-695, exit 19 to I-795 north to RT 30 north to Hampstead, left on RT 482, right on Snydersburg Road. CONFIDENCEVery confident VERIFIED No DATE UPDATED11/8/2004

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CUNNINGHAM FALLS S. P. (CUNN)

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TOWNSFREDERICK, THURMONT LAT, LON lat=39.63139, lon=-77.47167(source: Topozone) (accuracy:exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERUnknown TYPEWaterfall DESCRIPTIONSeventy eight foot high cascading falls, has numerous pools for dipping. PHOTO AT FALLS. Cold water, rocks can be slippery, be very careful. (Not for small children - take them the lake for 'official' swimming.) Brief hike to falls, wheelchair access to bottom of falls. Swimming in falls is not officially sanctioned. Official swimming lake is nearby in the S.P. PHOTO OF LAKE. Web site: CUNNINGHAM FALLS S. P. AREASCunningham Falls S.P. SANCTIONUnofficial FEEYes FACILITIES (at lake) Toilet, Changing room, Picnic tables, ACTIVITIES Swimming, PHONE(301)271-7574 CAMPING Camping at state park, reservations available, very well developed. Some sites are 'camper ready' with tents, stoves, etc provided. Call (301)271-7574. BATHING SUITSCustomary DIRECTIONS From Frederick, follow RT 15 N for about 15 mi to signs for Cunningham Falls S.P. CONFIDENCEVery confident VERIFIED yes DATE UPDATED6/30/1999

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ELK NECK S. P. (ELKN)

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TOWNSWILMINGTON (DE), ELKTON, NORTHEAST LAT, LON lat=39.50278, lon=-75.97917(source: Topozone) (accuracy:approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERChesapeake Bay TYPEBay DESCRIPTION A large, public, sandy beach on the northern reaches of the Chesapeake Bay. Not really a swimming hole, but attractive because the jellyfish that plague the lower Chesapeake don't reach up this far. NOTE: In 8/2007, a Washington Post article noted that upper Chesapeake Bay beaches frequently exceed pollution levels for human and animal waste. We DO NOT recommend swimming here unless you have specific information that it is acceptably clean here at the time you are visiting. AREASElk Neck S. P. SANCTIONOfficial FEEYes, $2.00 per vehicle FACILITIES Picnic tables, toilets, playground

ACTIVITIES Swimming PHONE410-287-5333 CAMPINGAt site, also cabins to rent. BATHING SUITSRequired DIRECTIONS From Wilmington DE, go south on I-95 (toll) to exit 100 then take RT 272 south to the state park. CONFIDENCEHighly confident VERIFIED Yes, 6/99 DATE UPDATED8/8/2007

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FERRY PARK (FERR)

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TOWNSCHESTERTOWN, ROCK HALL LAT, LON lat=39.139431, lon=-76.25767(source: map) (accuracy:approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERChesapeake Bay TYPEBay DESCRIPTION A small public, fine-sand beach on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Chester River is the swimming area for the town of Rock Hall. Check before you swim here - there are sometimes pollution alerts for this part of the bay and there may be jellyfish present in large number. Rock Hall Info. Fabulous sunsets! AREASEastern Shore SANCTIONOfficial town beach FEENo FACILITIES Picnic tables, toilets, changing room, gazebos. ACTIVITIES Swimming, picnicking, sunsets PHONEUnknown CAMPINGNone at site

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BATHING SUITSRequired DIRECTIONS From Chestertown (on Maryland's Eastern Shore), take RT 20 West to Rock Hall. Continue through the blinking light on Route 20 to where the road ends. Turn left on Beach Rd. Go about 1/2 mile. CONFIDENCEVery confident VERIFIED Yes, 6/2013 DATE UPDATED6/2013

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GREEN RIDGE S. F. AREA (4 PLACES) (GREE)

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TOWNSHANCOCK, CUMBERLAND, LITTLE ORLEANS STATEMD WATERFifteen Mile Creek TYPECreek DESCRIPTION Swimming holes in Fifteen Mile Creek in the Green Ridge State Forest (and nearby) in western Maryland NOTE: In all cases, getting a map from Green Ridge S.F. Ranger's Station is a necessity! The Ranger Station is at Exit 64 (near GREEN RIDGE 3 below). Green Ridge S.F. Web Site. See also nearby in West Virginia: MOUNT STORM AREA . See 'DIRECTIONS' below for details. AREASGreen Ridge State Forest SANCTIONUnofficial FEENone FACILITIES None ACTIVITIES Swimming (Tubing in Potomac River, at Green Ridge 4 below) PHONE 301-478-3124 CAMPINGThere are 100 primitive camping sites (no tables or toilets, $7.00)in the State Forest; get a permit at the State Forest Visitor's Center at Exit 64. Can also camp at the C&O Canal at GREEN RIDGE 4 (see below, tables and Johnny toilets, $10.00). For luxury, go west 15 miles on I-68 to Rocky Gap S.P., expensive camping but very nice - on a big lake with swimming and boating and a lodge. BATHING SUITSVaries, see below DIRECTIONSFrom Hancock, take I-68 west. Then:

GREEN RIDGE 1 (GRE1): Near the town of Flintstone in Fifteen Mile Creek is a not terribly scenic but convenient and fun swimming hole with rope swing (someone usually puts one up every year). This place may have no water later in the summer. PHOTO 1, PHOTO 2 . Not really in the State Forest but nearby. Bathing suits customary (it is a local hangout). To get here: From I-68, take Exit 62 (Scenic 40 and Fifteen Mile Creek Rd) and go north onto Scenic RT 40. At about a mile, Scenic 40 will curve to the right. Go left onto Fifteen Mile Creek Rd (gravel). At approximately .8 miles, the swimming hole will be on the right, at a culvert/bridge just past Carpenter Rd. LAT, LON : lat=39.6934, lon= -78.4523(source: measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Very confident. Verified 4/04. Updated 4/04.

GREEN RIDGE 2 (GRE2): Near the town of Little Orleans in Fifteen Mile Creek are a series of pools along the creek. Also an outstanding large pool called Longs Pond. Great informal (backpack) camping spots. Bathing suits may be optional in places. To get here: From I-68, take Exit 62 (Scenic 40 and Fifteen Mile Creek Rd). Go south on Fifteen Mile Creek Rd (gravel, sometimes rough but passable in a car) for 2.6 miles, keeping left at all decision points (e.g., do NOT go onto Greenridge Rd.) At 2.6 miles (past campsite #55 but BEFORE campsite #56) you will go down a hill and cross a creek and see a trailhead on the immediate other side of this bridge. Park here. There is a trail information sign here saying �Long Pond Ridge Trail.� Take the trail downstream (left) along a stream (it is not Fifteen Mile Creek, yet). The trail is marked red on the maps and also is marked red on the trees. Walk about .6 miles to where the trail splits. The red trail (Long Pond Ridge Trail) continues to the right; a blue-blazed trail goes to the left after crossing a stream. From here, there appear to be two ways to go toward Long Pond - the 'Bushwack' way and the 'Long Pond Ridge Trail' way (below) - neither one is clearly better. Long's Pond: LAT, LON : lat=39.65842, lon= -78.44737(source: measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP . Bushwack: If you take the blue-blazed trail you will soon come to a trail registry. In a short distance, when the trail begins to go steeply uphill. Here, leave the trail and wade across the creek and bushwhack pretty much straight downstream - there is an old overgrown road here which you are roughly following. (Keep on the lookout for snakes and use long pants and/or deet to repel ticks along the bushwacking parts of the trail.) You will bushwack for about 20 minutes, passing some wading/swimming places (and campsites) that are NOT Long Pond NOT LONG POND, then you will come to Long Pond itself which is a wide and deep spot on Fifteen Mile Creek with pronounced diagonally sloping rock strata on the rock bluff on the far side. LONG POND , LONG POND. There is a nice shady picnic area/campsite set up with natural stones to make seats. Pretty confident. Partially verified 4/04. Updated 6/2010. Long Pond Ridge Trail: At the trail split, you continue on the red trail, 'Long Pond Ridge Trail', and it rises very steeply, and the hike continues along the ridge before going down to the creek. From where the red and blue trails split to the bottom of the ridge is about a mile. Expect a steep, tiring hike of about 30 minutes from where the trails split - to be avoided unless you have good hiking shoes. When you finish the descent from the ridge, then you will see a 1.6 mile marker. Long Pond is maybe a hundred yards from there on the left. There is a path leading to it where people have set up a picnic area/campsite, so it is easy to spot. The water (in early June) was about 5 feet deep in a few places. As for bathing suits, the �Pond� is secluded in general, but not from the trail. Anyone hiking the red trail would be able to see. Pretty confident. Not verified. Updated 6/2010.

GREEN RIDGE 3 (GRE3): Swimming hole where 15 mile Creek dumps into the Potomac River. There is a boat ramp and there is usually a rope swing attached. The water is between 4' and 8' deep, depending on area and water level. The C&O Canal towpath allows you to cross the creek so you can enter the water on either side. You can swim in the creek or in the Potomac and even cross over to West Virginia.PHOTO. NOTE: Only adults who are also strong swimmers should enter the main stream of the Potomac, as the current is very strong. Sharing the area with locals and fishermen needs to be taken into account. For rafting / tubing, hike up the Potomac on the C&O Canal towpath as far as you want and you can raft down the Potomac back to your car. To get here: From MD I-68 take Exit 68 and go south on Orleans Road for about 6 miles. After 6 miles, take a left (east) at an intersection, where the signs point to the C&O Canal (right/straight continues west as Oldtown Orleans Rd). Pass by a small country store and outfitter shop called 'Bill's Place', pass under railroad tracks, and turn right immediately. Turn left at the campground entrance and cross the wooden bridge over the C&O canal. There is plenty of parking and several fee camping spots, with self-registration at $10 a night. (Recommend camping at one of the many camping spots at Green Ridge State Forest, which are more private ($7 a night). LAT, LON : lat=39.62412, lon= -78.38626(source: measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Very confident. Verified 4/04. Updated 4/04. TOWN CREEK (TOWN): Nice small swimming hole in Town Creek (near where it empties into the Potomac River) that is 7-10 feet deep with a rock formation to jump off of with jumps at 8, 15 and 25 feet. Plus size speed dating near ferndale missouri. To get here from I-68 in Cumberland, take RT 51 south for 20-25 miles. After you cross Town Creek (steel bridge) go about another .6 mile to a sign on the right that says �Town Creek Aquaduct/ C & O Canal entrance�. Turn right on to this access road and go until you come to the barricade at the end. About 200 yards before the barricade you will see a trail going down to your right. Walk down here and you will find the swimming hole. A great place on a hot day. LAT, LON : lat=39.52437, lon= -78.5441(source: map) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Pretty confident. Not verified. Updated 2/2011.

CONFIDENCEVaries - see above VERIFIED Partially, 4/04 DATE UPDATED2/2011

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GUNPOWDER FALLS S. P.-HEREFORD AREA (4 PLACES) (GUNH)

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TOWNSBALTIMORE, HEREFORD, MONKTON LAT, LON lat=39.6108, lon=-76.6806(source: DeLorme) (accuracy:general area) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERBig Gunpowder Creek TYPECreek DESCRIPTIONGunpowder Falls S.P. is comprised of separate parks where you can access the Gunpowder Falls River via several trails. This one, which is called the 'HEREFORD AREA', is up I-83 north of Baltimore. It includes several river access points and trails, several with swimming places. I name these (below) by the road from which you access the river. See directions below for details. AREASGunpowder Falls S.P. SANCTIONUnofficial FEENoFACILITIES Toilets, picnic tables at Bunker Hill, nothing at the other points ACTIVITIES Swimming, Tubing PHONE(410)592-2897 Gunpowder Falls S.P. CAMPINGNone at site. Continue up I-83, just past York, PA follow signs to Gifford Pinchot S.P. Great camping and lake swimming. BATHING SUITSCustomary DIRECTIONS From Baltimore, take I-83 north to exit 27 (RT 137, Hereford). From here: BUNKER HILL RD. (BUNK): Go east (right) at the bottom of the ramp onto RT 137. Then north (left) onto York Rd. RT 45). Go about 1 mi to just past Hereford High School (on the right) to Bunker Hill Rd. on the left. Go left onto Bunker Hill Rd. which ends at a parking lot for Gunpowder Falls S. P. and a picnic area. Walk upstream (left) on the south side of the river, keeping on the trail closest to the stream. After you get through the picnic area (about a 5 min. walk altogether), there is a deep swimming hole in the stream with a beach area. LAT, LON: lat=39.612855, lon=-76.676311(source: map) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. BUNKER HILL RD. PHOTO 1 - PHOTO 2 YORK RD. (YORK): Continue north on York Rd. past Bunker Hill Rd. until you reach the bridge over Gunpowder Falls River. Park on either side of York Rd. south of the bridge (before you cross the bridge.) The most easily accessible place here is 'Hobo Beach'. It is right near the parking area with a grassy lawn and deep swimming place on the far side of the creek with a rope swing and large rock. Cold water! Popular spot for ending tubing trips down the Gunpowder. LAT, LON: lat=39.61428, lon=-76.65908(source: map) (accuracy: general area) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. For other places, walk north along York Rd. across the bridge (carefully, there is no sidewalk.) After you cross the bridge, on the east (right) side of the road there is a sign saying 'Wiseburg'. At this sign, there is a trail going down steeply toward the river. Where you first reach the river is an apparent swimming place by a couple of large rocks. Continue on this trail (blue blazes) downstream (this is the Gunpowder Falls North trail, it is a very easy and pretty walk) for about 30 minutes and you will come to Raven Falls (a very small but picturesque falls)YORK RD. PHOTO 1 entering the river from the left. There is a small pool at the very bottom of the falls but a better swimming hole is there in the Gunpowder Falls River where a large rock goes down to the water.YORK RD. PHOTO 2 Another trail: Across York Rd. from the Wiseburg sign there is another trail going down to the river and following it in the upstream direction. There is said to be a local swimming hole a short distance down this trail but I did not see any real swimming places on a visit 2/20/01, except maybe right under the I-83 bridge, but it is very noisy and not very scenic there. BIG FALLS RD. (BIGF): From RT 137 in Hereford, go south on York Rd. (RT 45) a short distance then east (left) on Monkton Rd.(RT 138) Take Monkton Rd through Hereford to Big Falls Rd on the left (before Monkton). Turn left on Big Falls Rd, bear right at the 'T' intersection to stay on Big Falls Rd. Just before Big Falls Rd crosses the river, park here and walk upstream on the south side of the river (the Gunpowder Falls South Trail). LAT, LON: lat=39.60886, lon=-76.63513(source: map) (accuracy: general area) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. There are several deep swimming holes here, tubing also. Rental of tubes at the train station in Monkton. FALLS RD. (FALL): From Exit 27, go west (left) at the bottom of the ramp onto RT 137 (Mount Carmel Rd.). Continue past several roads and turn north (right) on Evna Rd. Follow Evna Rd. and turn right on Falls Rd. As Falls Rd. descends to the Gunpowder Falls River, park in the last parking area on the left just before you cross the bridge. AT, LON: lat=39.61875, lon=-76.69075(source: map) (accuracy: general area) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. A trail begins in this parking area (designated the Gunpowder Falls South Trail) and goes down to the river then heads upstream on the south side of the river. There are several deep places with large rocks and small falls for swimming in the first 10-15 minutes of this walk.FALLS RD. PHOTO 2 - PHOTO 3 (The trail gets rocky and narrow if you go further and there are no apparent swimming places further up.) There is also an apparent swimming place just downstream from this bridge. FALLS RD. PHOTO 1 CONFIDENCEVery confident VERIFIED yes, 2/21/01 DATE UPDATED2/21/01

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GUNPOWDER FALLS S. P.-CENTRAL AREA (7 PLACES) (GUNC)

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TOWNSBALTIMORE, PERRY HALL, BENSON, BALDWIN STATEMD WATERVaries-see below TYPECreek/River DESCRIPTIONGunpowder Falls S.P. is comprised of separate parks where you can access the Gunpowder Falls River and the Little Gunpowder River via several trails. This one, which is called the 'CENTRAL AREA', is up RT 1 northeast of Baltimore. AREASGunpowder Falls S.P. SANCTIONUnofficial FEENo FACILITIES None ACTIVITIES Swimming PHONE(410)592-2897 Gunpowder Falls S.P. CAMPINGNone at site. Susquehanna S. P. and Elk Neck S. P., both northeast of here, have camping. Elk Neck also has swimming in the Chesapeake Bay. BATHING SUITSCustomary DIRECTIONS From the Baltimore beltway, I-695, take Exit 32 and go north on RT 1, then: LONG GREEN CREEK (LONG): AKA 'The Pool'. (See also 'POT ROCKS' below which are accessed from the same parking area). This swimming hole is in a tributary creek (Long Green Creek) that empties into the Gunpowder Falls River. LINK TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT THIS PLACE. To get here from the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) north of Baltimore take RT 1 (Belair Rd.) north about 5.5 miles. Just after RT 1 crosses the bridge over the Gunpowder Falls River there is a large parking area on the right (east) side of RT 1. LAT, LON (parking area): lat=39.4276, lon= -76.4433(source: measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Park here and look at the large trail map painted on the sign in the parking lot. Near the right hand edge of this map, see an area marked 'POOL' in 'LONG GREEN CREEK'. This is the swimming hole. This report from a visitor in 2007:'Just visited this swimming hole about two weeks ago. I planned my own circuit hike that finished up at the swimming hole, then followed the trail you described back to the parking lot. It's there, with some nice rocks for sunning afterward. The water isn't particularly deep, but enough to swim around. Mostly smooth rocks and some mucky stuff on the bottom - I didn't have water shoes but didn't have a problem. There weren't many other people when I got there, but as I stayed more and more people showed up. Probably not a private spot on a hot weekend afternoon, but I enjoyed the dip after nearly 10 miles of hiking.' To get here: Follow the trail as described in this map - go under RT 1 then upstream along the north shore of the river. There are various trails that go off to the right - DO NOT TAKE THESE; stay on the trail that runs along the river. At about 1.2 miles, the trail will encounter Long Green Creek and bend to the right. The swimming hole is near here in Long Green Creek. (May be too shallow to swim at some water levels.)LAT, LON (swimming hole): lat=39.43758, lon= -76.46314(source: DeLorme) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Very confident. Verified 4/04. Updated 4/04. POT ROCKS (POTR):(See also 'LONG GREEN CREEK' above which is accessed from the same parking area). 1.2 mile easy hike (each way) to rocks and rapids in the middle of the Big Gunpowder Falls River. PHOTO OF MAP , PHOTO , PHOTO . The rocks form a little pool (where pot holes were created in the bedrock from water action) that is a great place to go for a dip. Nice place to go near sunset on a hot summer day (park closes at sunset). LINK TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT THIS PLACE. To get here from the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) north of Baltimore take RT 1 (Belair Rd.) north about 5.5 miles. Just after RT 1 crosses the bridge over the Gunpowder Falls River there is a large parking area on the right (east) side of RT 1. (same parking area as for LONG GREEN CREEK above) LAT, LON (parking area): lat=39.4276, lon= -76.4433(source: measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Park here and look at the large trail map painted on the sign in the parking lot. On the left side of this map, see an area marked 'POT ROCKS'. This is the swimming hole. Park and follow the blue blazed trail heading southeast from the parking lot (downstream) on the north side of the river. After walking less than a mile, you come to a trail crossing. To the left is the continuation of the Lost Pond Trail, which leads you up the hillside. Keep right here at the trail marker (keep near the river, still following the blue blazes) and continue hiking for about ten minutes to the Pot Rocks (there is a sign post) which are rocks in the middle of the river. LAT, LON: lat=39.418, lon=-76.429(source: measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Very confident. Verified 4/2011. Updated 4/2011. LITTLE GUNPOWDER FALLS (LITT): Swimming place/water play place at rapids in Little Gunpowder Falls. PHOTO , PHOTO . There are A LOT of no parking signs on the road (and hardly any safe parking even if there weren't the signs), so you may have to walk a ways after you park (legally) to get to the bridge and swimming hole. There are strong currents here at some places so avoid these. From the Baltimore Beltway, take RT 1 (Belair Road) north about 7 miles from the Beltway to Kingsville. In Kingsville, follow Jerusalem Road as it bears to the right. Take an immediate right onto Bradshaw Road and continue for almost one mile. Turn left onto Franklinville Road (continue straight onto Vinegar Hill Rd). In about a mile you will cross a bridge over Little Gunpowder Falls River. (If you find yourself driving parallel to the river, you missed Vinegar Hill Rd). This is the swimming hole. LAT, LON : lat=39.44730, lon= -76.38099(source: map) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Very confident. Verified 4/2011. Updated 4/2011.

GUYTON ROAD (GUYT): Nice little local swimming place in the Little Gunpowder River. Sandy beach, shallow near beach, deeper across the river with some large rocks there also. Relatively warm water. Nice for the whole family on a hot day. PHOTO , PHOTO To get here, continue north on RT 1 through Kingsville and across the Little Gunpowder River then turn left on Reckord Rd. Follow Reckord Rd. across RT 147 then turn left on Guyton Rd. (before you get to Old Fallston Rd). Follow Guyton Rd., soon paralleling the Little Gunpowder River (becomes a dirt road), until you get to the river where you will see a parking area and beach on your left. LAT, LON lat=39.50268, lon=-76.42930(source: measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Very confident. Verified 6/2010. Updated 6/2010.

SWEET AIR (SWEE): A detached portion of Gunpowder Falls S. P. Central Area, called the Sweet Air area, with a nice 2-4 mile hike along the Little Gunpowder with (maybe) some swimming and/or shallow water-play places along the hike (not sure). To get here: Continue north on RT 1 past Reckord Rd (see Guyton above) to Lynchs Corner then turn northwest (left) on Rt 152. Take RT 152 about 6 miles RT 165. Turn left heading south on 165 (Baldwin Mill Road). In a very short distance, turn right onto Greene Road, then right onto Moores Road, and left onto Dalton Bevard Road. Park at the large, signed parking area near the end of this road. Numerous trails leave from this parking area, making return loops. See the large trail maps in the kiosk. Go to the one with white blazes, which eventually parallels the creek. The (possible) swimming places are in the Little Gunpowder along this trail. Not certain. PARK AT: LAT, LON: lat=39.53610, lon=-76.5050(source: measured) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Pretty confident. Partially verified 6/2010. Updated 6/2010.

HAMMERMAN BEACH (HAMM):The Hammerman Area offers 1,500 feet of beach and swimming area at Cunninghill Cove (where Gunpowder Falls empties into the Chesapeake Bay). WEB SITE . The swimming area is supervised by lifeguards from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Fee to enter. LINK TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT THIS PLACE. Swimming is permitted at your own risk when lifeguards are not on duty. PHOTO , PHOTO , PHOTO OF FACILITY .Four picnic shelters are available for rental. The area also has a food concession, picnic tables and grills, playground equipment and a windsurfing beach. Ultimate Watersports rents kayaks, wind surfboards and catamarans at the beach. Hammerman is open year-round, except Christmas and Thanksgiving. To get here: From I-95 take exit 67A then RT 43 east (White Marsh Boulevard). Follow RT 43 to RT 40 east. After turning onto RT 40, turn right at the first light onto Ebenezer Road and follow it for 4.5 miles. The park entrance will be on your left. Very confident. Verified 4/2011. Updated 4/2011. LAT, LON: lat=39.3644, lon=-76.3407(source: map) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Very confident. Verified 4/2011. Updated 4/2011.

JONES ROAD AREA (JONE): Swimming hole with rope swings and rocks to jump from. Can be lots of trash - take an extra bag with you and carry some out, please. LINK TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT THIS PLACE. Two swimming places are one with rocks to jump right under the train trestle and another a short walk beyond the rocks. Both spots have rope swings but the farther one is less crowded and no train noise. To get here, from I-695 (Baltimore Beltway) north of Baltimore take RT 40 north. Just after you cross the Gunpowder River, take a left onto Jones Rd. (is easy to miss, if you get to Joppa Farm Rd., you've gone too far.) Right after turning onto Jones Rd., park at the lot on the left (dont park anywhere else). After you park, follow a trail down to the water (There are multiple trails and branches, stay on the most prominent trail). LAT, LON: lat=39.41319, lon=-76.38751(source: measured) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Pretty confident. Verified by Alex Camlin/Baltimore Examiner. Updated 2/2011. CONFIDENCEVaries - see above VERIFIED Varies - see above DATE UPDATED2/2011

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LOCH RAVEN (LOCH)

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TOWNSBALTIMORE, TIMONIUMLAT, LON (DRIVE)lat=39.43815 lon=-76.55299(source: map) (accuracy:exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAPLAT, LON (SWIM) lat=39.44213, lon=-76.54887(source: map) (accuracy:approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAPSTATEMDWATERLoch Raven ReservoirTYPELakeDESCRIPTIONSmall corner of large lake (reservoir) with rope swing and rocks/cliffs to jump. PLEASE NOTE: SWIMMING IS NOT PERMITTED HERE - the rules state� Bathing, wading, swimming and water skiing are prohibited.'AREASUnknownSANCTIONUnofficialFEENoFACILITIESnoneACTIVITIESSwimming, Rope swing, JumpingPHONEnoneCAMPINGNone at siteBATHING SUITSOptional DIRECTIONS From the north side of the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) take Exit 28, Providence Rd, north. Follow Providence Rd for about three miles to where it ends in a 'T' with Lock Raven Rd. The trail you want leaves from the right far side of this T intersection. However, there is very little legal parking near here. If you go BACK up Providence Rd. (back the way you came) you will pass many 'no parking' signs but, just as you leave the Loch Raven area and just as you enter a residential area (between Dogwood Hill Rd. and Roxleigh Rd.), you will see a wide shoulder on Providence Rd. that does not have 'no parking' signs and often many cars parked here. Park here and walk along the path that follows Providence Rd. back down to the T intersection and then take the trail mentioned above. Follow that trail at first uphill (keep left at a major fork where there is a small tree stump with a hole in it) then downhill for a total of about 0.5 miles until you get to the water where you will see large rocks ands several rope swings. PLEASE NOTE: SWIMMING IS NOT PERMITTED HERE - the rules state� Bathing, wading, swimming and water skiing are prohibited.' CONFIDENCEVery confidentVERIFIEDYes, 6/2010LAST UPDATE6/2010

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MEADOWSIDE (MEAD)

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TOWNSBALTIMORE, ELLICOTT CITY, SYKESVILLELAT, LON lat=39.11075, lon=-77.10603(source: DeLorme) (accuracy:approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAPSTATEMDWATERNorth Branch Rock CreekTYPECreekDESCRIPTIONSmall place for a cool dip in suburban creek just before it empties into Lake Bernard Frank. Unsure of cleanliness of water due to suburban location - be cautious, do not submerge your head here. CAUTION: As of the summer of 2019, many swimming holes in Montgomery County Maryland have detected elevated levels of Microcystin. Montgomery County Swimming Hazard to learn more. AREASRock Creek Stream Valley Park SANCTIONUnofficialFEENoFACILITIESnoneACTIVITIESWading, SwimmingPHONEnoneCAMPINGNone at siteBATHING SUITSCustomary DIRECTIONS From Washington DC, go north from the Beltway (I-495) on either Connecticut or Georgia Avenues (Connecticut eventually merges into Georgia Avenue, which is aka RT 97). 3 miles north of the Beltway, turn left on Norbeck Road (it's a major lighted intersection, aka Rt 28). Almost immediately, turn right on Muncaster Mill Road (aka Rt 115). In a little over a mile, you will cross over the north branch of Rock Creek, then turn left to the Meadowside Nature Center (5100 Meadowside Lane). Follow a trail that drops down to the stream valley from the rear, left side of the Nature Center as you face it from the parking lot. It will bring you down to the north branch of Rock Creek. You will find a small swimming hole above where the creek empties into Lake Bernard Frank. It isn't much, but it's very close to DC. CONFIDENCEVery confidentVERIFIEDBy anotherLAST UPDATE1/21/2005

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PATAPSCO VALLEY S. P. AREA (2 PLACES) (PATA)

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TOWNSBALTIMORE, ELLICOTT CITY, SYKESVILLE, HENRYTONSTATEMDWATERSouth Branch Patapsco RiverTYPERiverDESCRIPTIONRiver with some deep spots. PATAPSCO VALLEY S. P. CAUTION: THERE WAS A JUMPER WHO DROWNED HERE IN 2003, PLEASE DO NOT JUMP OR SWIM HERE IF THERE IS ANY QUESTION OF SAFETY. I CANNOT VERIFY THE SAFETY OF THIS PLACE. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY. AREASPatapsco Valley State Park SANCTIONUnofficialFEENoFACILITIESnoneACTIVITIESSwimming, rope swing, fishingPHONEnoneCAMPINGNearby at Patapsco River S. P. BATHING SUITSCustomary. Spots are very near road. DIRECTIONSTake I-70 west of Baltimore to Exit 80. Take RT 32 north, then: SYKESVILLE (SYKE): River with some deep spots. To get here from I-70 west of Baltimore, take Exit 80 then RT 32 north about 3.4 miles then turn right onto River Rd. You will see a park entrance sign and several pull-offs on the left side over the next mile, some have better swimming than others. One has a good sized rock with a large pool behind it. LAT, LON: lat=39.35861, lon=-76.96256(source: map) (accuracy:approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Pretty confident. Verified by W. Brunner. Updated 2/2013. HENRYTON (HENR): River with deep swimming hole and rope swing. YOUTUBE , YOUTUBE . To get here from RT 32 and River Rd. (above) continue north on RT 32 a short way then turn right on Raincliffe Road, turn right when Raincliffe ends then the next left onto Arrington Road, right where Arrington ends, left on Arrington again, and right on Henryton Road. Follow Henryton Road down the hill to where it ends at the river. Cross the train tracks to the swimming hole with rope swing. LAT, LON: lat=39.35151, lon=-76.91359(source: map) (accuracy:approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Pretty confident. Not verified Updated 2/2013.CONFIDENCEPretty confidentVERIFIEDVaries - see aboveLAST UPDATE2/2013

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POTOMAC S. F. AREA (6 PLACES) (POTO)

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TOWNSOAKLAND, GORMAN, KEARNEY STATEMD WATERPotomac River & tributaries TYPERiver DESCRIPTIONSwimming holes in Potomac River and tributaries. CAUTION: HOLES IN POTOMAC WILL BE VERY DANGEROUS IN HIGH FLOWS. For details, see 'DIRECTIONS' below. See also nearby in West Virginia: MOUNT STORM AREA AREASPotomac S. F. SANCTIONUnofficial FEENoFACILITIES Unknown ACTIVITIES Swimming, PHONE(301)334-2038 (Garrett/Potomac S.F.) CAMPINGThere are semi-developed camping places in the State Forest. Also, north of Oakland are Deep Creek Lake S.P. and Swallow Falls S.P. both of which have camping as well as swimming. (See Swallow Falls swimming hole info below). BATHING SUITSUnknown DIRECTIONS From Oakland (in far Western MD, Garrett County) take RT 135 then RT 560 south (set odometer at this intersection). Then: LOSTLAND (LOST): From the intersection of RT 135 and RT 560, go about 2.2 mi on RT 560 then turn left on Bethlehem Rd. (From here, there will be signs to the State Forest). Go about 3.4 miles then turn left onto Combination Rd. Go about .6 miles then turn left on Potomac Camp Rd. Go about 1 mile then turn right onto Lostland Rd. Pass park headquarters (where you can ask for maps and information) onto a dirt road (Lostland Rd) that goes down to the Potomac (set odometer). There are three swimming holes down this road: First: In 2.1 miles down this road, park in the large parking place on the right. There is a trail with a sign that says 'Cascades' here. Follow the trail a very short way to the cascades and pool. This is an outstandingly beautiful cascade and swimming hole below - would be a great movie location! PHOTO 1 , PHOTO 2 Enjoy! LAT, LON FOR CASCADES: lat=39.36559, lon=-79.24501(source: Measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Second: At 2.9 miles down this road, there is a small parking area on the right. Take the wide trail leaves this area in the upstream direction (it has a trail register). When you get to the footbridge, there is a large swimming hole below. PHOTO . LAT, LON FOR FOOTBRIDGE: lat=39.36140, lon=-79.23375(source: Measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Third: At the end of the road, park and walk a short way to the Potomac River. There is a big swimming hole about 200-300 yards downstream in the Potomac. PHOTO , PHOTO There are several rocks to jump off of and 2 pools that are 10-15 feet deep. It is a great and refreshing hole. An interesting big cave formation above it on a hillside. LAUREL RUN (LAUR): From the intersection of RT 135 and RT 560, go about 5.1 mi south on RT 560 then turn left on White Church -Steyer Rd. (at big sign for Potomac State Forest). Go about 1.2 miles then turn left on Audley Riley Rd. (very small sign for state forest). Go about 1.2 miles more (road turns to dirt) into the State Forest to the fork where Laurel Run Rd. goes left and Wallman Rd. goes right. Keep left onto Laurel Run Rd (set odometer here) which runs along Laurel Run and has camping areas along the road (tables but no drinking water or toilets). Laurel Run has a number of nice swimming holes. The first is at about 2 miles from the fork - a nice hole with a long cascade into it PHOTO . There is a small parking turn out here on the right. There are a series of cascades you can walk to just downstream from here ending with another nice swimming hole just behind campsite #29 at: lat=39.34462, lon=-79.26657(source: Measured ) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Another is just at the parking area at the end of the road PHOTO . LAT, LON AT PARKING AREA: lat=39.34140, lon=-79.2600(source: Measured ) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. The last is: from the parking area, cross the run and walk the short trail to the Potomac River. LAT,LON: lat=39.34187, lon=-79.25752(source: Map ) (accuracy: general area) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. There is a big swimming hole on the Potomac, just upstream of Laurel Run. PHOTO . CONFIDENCEVery confident VERIFIED Yes, 5/2007 DATE UPDATED5/2007

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ROCKS S. P. AREA (3 PLACES) (ROCK)

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TOWNSEDGEWOOD, BEL AIR, JARRETTSVILLE LAT, LON lat=39.64097, lon=-76.41592(source: DeLorme) (accuracy:general area) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERDeer Creek TYPECreek DESCRIPTION Beautiful linear park along Deer Creek - lots of family fun picnicking, swimming and tubing! Can tube and swim here on 3 1/2 miles of Deer Creek. Bring your own tubes (includes class 3 rapid that most people walk around rather than tube through.) Several swimming holes, 10' - 12' deep, reachable by tube also from parking lots at picnic areas along creek. See 'DIRECTIONS' below for details. AREASRocks State Park SANCTIONOfficial FEEPark free on road or $2.00 per person in picnic area lots. FACILITIES Picnic tables, toilets with changing room ACTIVITIES Swimming, Tubing PHONE(410)557-7994 CAMPINGNot at site, camp nearby at Susquehanna State Park BATHING SUITSRequired DIRECTIONSFrom Baltimore, take I-95 north to exit 77 then RT 24 northwest through Bel Air to Rocks then turn west (left) on St. Clair Bridge Rd. which parallels Deer Creek. The swimming areas are: WILSON CREEK PICNIC AREA (WILS): Follow the signs to the Wilson Creek Picnic Area. LAT, LON : lat=39.64097, lon= -76.41592 (source: map) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. The best swimming hole is to your right as you enter the parking area. HILLS GROVE PICNIC AREA (HILL): Follow the signs to the Hills Grove Picnic Area. LAT, LON : lat=39.6397, lon= -76.42498 (source: map) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. There is an excellent swimming hole here, with a nice gravel beach. Very clean water. HILLS GROVE PICNIC AREA PHOTO KILGORE FALLS (KILG): Kilgore Falls is a well little known (and very scenic) wading/swimming place in a separate part of Rocks S. P. on Falling Branch Creek. From the sign on RT 24 to the above picnic areas, go about 4 miles more up RT 24 (through the traffic circle) then go left on St. Mary's Rd. Go about .5 miles then take a right on Falling Branch Rd. This is a dirt road. Take it about .6 miles where it takes a sharp right turn and ends in a parking area (very little parking available.). Park and take the trail about .3 miles to the falls. This looks like a nice place for kids and there is a gradual entry to the water for play. KILGORE FALLS PHOTO. LAT, LON : lat=39.6918, lon= -76.4272 (source: measured) (accuracy: exact) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. CONFIDENCEVery confident VERIFIED Yes, all places DATE UPDATED7/2018

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SILVER SPRING KIDS FOUNTAIN (SKID)

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TOWNSWASHINGTON DC, SILVER SPRING MDLAT, LON lat=38.99585,lon=-77.02658(source: map) (accuracy:approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP

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STATEMD WATERFountain TYPEFountain DESCRIPTION Water-play fountain for kids in center of a lively shopping, restaurant and entertainment complex in downtown Silver Spring MD (a northern suburb of Washington DC). Cool relief on a hot summer day. WEB INFO . AREASDowntown Silver Spring SANCTIONOfficial FEENone

Dating Springs Eldersburg Maryland

FACILITIES All facilities nearby in shopping area ACTIVITIES Water play PHONENone CAMPINGNone BATHING SUITSRequired DIRECTIONS Via AUTO: From Washington DC beltway, I-495, on the north side, take exit 30 onto RT 29 south (Colesville Rd.). Turn east (left) on Georgia Ave then left again on Ellsworth Dr. Find a place to park and walk to the plaza and fountain. Via METRORAIL - Take the Red line to the Silver Spring METRO station. Walk generally northeast about 4 blocks to the plaza. CONFIDENCEHighly confident VERIFIED Ye DATE UPDATED9/2014

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SWALLOW FALLS S. P. (4 PLACES) (SWAL)

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TOWNSOAKLAND LAT, LON lat=39.49667, lon=-79.42556(source: Topozone) (accuracy:general area) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP STATEMD WATERYoughiogheny River/Muddy Creek/Tolliver Run TYPEWaterfalls/River/Creek DESCRIPTIONThere are two waterfalls in Swallow Creek State Park; Swallow Falls (on the Yough. River) and Muddy Creek Falls (on Muddy Creek). There are several very fine swimming holes just below each falls and more in the creek and river downstream of each falls. MUDDY CREEK FALLS (MUDD): The best swimming hole is at the bottom of Muddy Creek Falls. PHOTO BELOW MUDDY CREEK FALLS , PHOTO BELOW MUDDY CREEK FALLS. Don't climb or swim in the immediate area ABOVE Muddy Creek Falls - people have fallen to their death here. However, if you go farther back upstream, above Muddy Creek Falls, there is a safe and nice place to swim. PHOTO ABOVE MUDDY CREEK FALLS. LAT, LON : lat=39.50113, lon= -79.41854(source: map) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. SWALLOW FALLS (SWAL): The largest falls, Upper Swallow Falls, is pretty spectacular but not the best place to swim PHOTO UPPER SWALLOW FALLS. The best swimming place is in Swallow Falls, the Lower Falls section PHOTO LOWER SWALLOW FALLS , PHOTO LOWER SWALLOW FALLS. LAT, LON : lat=39.49589, lon= -79.41725 (source: map) (accuracy: approximate) LINK TO GOOGLE MAP. Also, in this park, if you follow the Tolliver Run trail a short way up from the river (very near Swallow Falls) you come to a gorge carved from rock and a small 5 foot waterfall with a pool and sandy beach (and very cold water). Overall, Swallow Falls S. P. is a very good place for family fun in the water. Camp and swim and spend a few days exploring.

AREASSwallow Falls S. P. SANCTIONUnofficial FEEYes FACILITIES Toilet, Picnic tables ACTIVITIES Swimming, jumping, rope swing PHONE(301)334-9180 CAMPING Very nice wooded camping is available at Swallow Falls S.P. and nearby at Deep Creek Lake S.P. BATHING SUITSCustomary DIRECTIONS From Oakland (in Western MD, Garrett County) follow county road RT 20 northwest about 9 miles to park. CONFIDENCEVery confident VERIFIED Yes, 8/2011 DATE UPDATED8/2011 HOME

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A child mental-health fix takes early action, more help

In most ways, Symone is like any other 17-year-old looking forward to her senior year in high school and what life may bring after — college and a career in music therapy or entertainment law, she hopes.

Her teenage years have included some notable highs. She shared the national spotlight as part of the Detroit Youth Choir, which was given a key to the city for “being the Heart, Soul and Spirit of Detroit.”

DAY ONE:Mental health crisis: Children at breaking point during COVID-19 pandemic

DAY TWO:Michigan emergency rooms confront ‘tidal wave of sadness’ among young patients

And yet, Symone said, she can suddenly feel despondent. It comes “randomly,” she said: “It’s like a mind battle.”

“I can have the best day ever, then suddenly I’m sad,” she said. “Like I want to be dead. I want to be dark. I can’t feel light, and I can’t feel happy.”

Which is why she offers this simple plea: “Don’t give up on people with mental health” issues.

In this series, Bridge Michigan and Indianapolis-based Side Effects Public Media have highlighted critical gaps in mental health resources for children and teens across the Midwest — that includes a shortage of psychiatrists, therapists and inpatient beds, and the warehousing of children in hospital emergency rooms as they wait for specialized treatment. It’s a system further strained by COVID-19.

Fortunately, nascent efforts are underway at the state and federal level to improve access to treatment. They range from placing more psychologists and social workers in schools, to encouraging more medical residents to pursue careers in child psychiatry, to deeper investment in public health, including funding for more psychiatric beds to help thousands of families with a child in despair.

Some say the timing is right for an overhaul. Federal COVID stimulus funds can fuel the effort in ways not previously possible, including more money devoted to behavioral health as students across the country prepare to return to classrooms in the fall.

Here are seven ideas or legislative plans that may ease the burden and allow more young people like Symone to thrive:

More psychiatrists, sure. But how?

Pick just about any state and there are not enough psychiatrists who specialize in child or adolescent treatment, especially in rural areas.

The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists recommends 47 child psychiatrists for every 100,000 children. In Michigan, there are 11 per 100,000 children; in Indiana, it’s even worse at 6 per 100,000.

While the number of child psychiatrists has risen nationally in the past decade or so, there are still precious few and they tend to practice in more affluent, better educated and metropolitan areas. A 2019 study in the journal Pediatrics found that 70% of U.S. counties had no child psychiatrists. For example, and as Bridge has reported, Michigan’s rural Upper Peninsula, more than 300 miles long, has zero child psychiatrists.

Another impediment: Child psychiatrists tend to begin careers near the East Coast and West Coast cities where they trained, said Dr. Sanya Virani, a trustee with the American Psychiatric Association.

So how might policy makers get more medical residents to choose this field? A greater focus on financial incentives such as student loan forgiveness or higher reimbursement rates might help, particularly if they are targeted to practicing in hard-to-reach regions.

Becoming a child psychiatrist typically requires five years of training beyond medical school. That means many newly-minted child psychiatrists enter the workforce with mountains of debt.

The Michigan State Loan Repayment Program offers up to $200,000 over eight years to medical professionals practicing in underserved areas. And this year, the program is prioritizing loan forgiveness for inpatient pediatric psychiatrists. MIDOCS, a collaboration among medical schools to boost training slots in Michigan, also offers loan forgiveness.

Of course, psychiatrists are only a single point on a larger spectrum of care. Loan forgiveness programs also are used to lure other critical staff, such as social workers or therapists who have racked up student debt.

More inpatient beds

As COVID-19 began to catch the world’s attention in December 2019, Beaumont Health broke ground on a $40 million, 100,000-square-foot, 144-bed behavioral health hospital in Dearborn, near Detroit.

Officials say the facility, expected to open this year, will include 24 beds for children with depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, autism, anxiety, bipolar disorder, substance abuse orders, or other mental health problems.

That will help ease a logjam of young people in emergency rooms awaiting beds, particularly in populous southeast Michigan. The hospital also will train psychiatrists — adding the first six psychiatry residents this year and ultimately training 24 at a time, though it’s unclear how many will specialize in children and adolescents.

“It’s terrible to watch these kids in crisis. We just don’t have enough resources right now for them,” said Dr. Whitney Minnock, medical director for the pediatric emergency room at Beaumont Royal Oak.

Still, 24 beds is limited help.

Even if every one of Michigan’s 334 pediatric inpatient psychiatric beds were used — and they’re not, often because of lack of support staff — Michigan’s bed capacity still falls far short of what’s needed, experts said. The regions where beds are most scarce — such as northern lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula — are five to 10 hours from the new Dearborn hospital.

Use one-time federal stimulus funds

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and some lawmakers have proposed using Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Funds to boost behavioral health services in Michigan.

A House budget proposal passed in May would set aside $220 million for sweeping infrastructure improvements, including $100 million to expand long-term pediatric psychiatric inpatient services.

That would add as many as 120 inpatient beds for youths, said Laura Appel, vice president and chief innovation officer for the Michigan Health & Hospital Association, an industry group.

The MHA and Republican state Rep. Mary Whiteford, a registered nurse who has pushed for years for better mental health services in Michigan, helped drive the plan.

Another $85 million in the plan would build a new psychiatric center for children, replacing the aging Hawthorn Center, the state-operated inpatient facility in Northville, for children and adolescents, Whiteford said.

The budget proposal also called for $15 million in renovations to hospital emergency rooms, which would, among other things, make them safer and more secure for suicidal patients as they await treatment.

So, for instance, ERs could be outfitted with rooms without door knobs or clothes hooks that patients in acute distress could use to hang or harm themselves.

Appel said people with mental illness also need an area set apart from the typical chaos of a busy ER, with soft or natural lighting to help calm agitated patients, similar to environmental features found in psychiatric facilities.

At Grand Rapids-based Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, the living and treatment areas have specialized furniture that is too heavy to throw. Staff consulted a botanist to ensure the indoor plants — designed to offer a soothing, outdoor feel to large spaces — are not toxic to a child who might try to eat them, a spokesman said.

The Michigan Legislature left for summer break this week without finishing the state budget. But lawmakers did finish work Wednesday on a school spending bill, setting aside $240 million to place more psychologists, school social workers, school counselors and nurses in schools.

These positions are “essential” and schools are “uniquely suited to assist youths with mental health concerns,” noted the nonpartisan Citizens Research Council of Michigan, a public affairs research group. The CRC released its own findings this week on child mental health care services, noting the lack of school staff available to assist students in crisis. Other researchers have expanded that idea to include integrating behavioral health into primary-care pediatric settings as well.

In May, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced $3 billion in American Rescue Plan funding to support mental health and substance use grant programs across the U.S. That included nearly $42 million of new funding for community mental health centers in Michigan and more than $25 million in Indiana.

That followed $2.5 billion in SAMHSA payouts to states in March.

Intervene early

Mental health advocates say it’s critical to intervene early with those most in need.

Boosting school- and home-based programs helps identify and treat mental illness sooner, before a young patient falls into crisis, Dr. Michelle Morgan, a retired psychiatrist in the U.P., recently told residents at a community meeting in Eagle River.

Early action also helps law enforcement, especially in rural areas that operate with just a handful of officers each day.

Sheriff Joe Brogan of Baraga County in the U.P. told residents at the same meeting that when officers respond to a person in mental distress other emergencies get missed. “We don’t have anybody answering calls for service,” he said.

Michigan is one of several states working to provide police with training to better identify mental illness in people they encounter and get them into treatment centers for evaluation and help rather than sending them to jail.

Indiana has turned to a program called “high-fidelity wraparound” as a way to address complex behavioral issues in young people so they don’t get to the point of needing inpatient care.

Under the wraparound model, a case manager is assigned to coordinate a child’s care, which might involve therapists or other medical professionals as well as social workers, teachers and parents. Indiana’s Medicaid program offers this service to qualified families.

Wraparound services are useful when traditional methods of supporting a child’s mental health needs are unsuccessful. The goal is to deescalate a problem before it reaches crisis stage, said Ebony Reynolds, clinical officer of Detroit Wayne Integrated Mental Health, which manages providers for families in Wayne County.

Families “deserve a system that’s responsive to their needs, rather than just getting thrown whatever it is this system has to offer,” said Kimberly Estep of the National Wraparound Implementation Center.

Another key to early intervention is round-the-clock access to mental health support, said Whiteford, the state representative. She sponsored legislation that led to a 24-hour Michigan Crisis and Access Line that opened in April in Oakland County and the Upper Peninsula.

The crisis line, which also takes calls from those who who dial the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, will be accessible across the state by fall 2022.

“It folds all these hotlines into a one-stop shop for anybody who needs help — from a police officer to a nurse in an emergency room to a mom worried about her child,” Whiteford said.

The line will also have access to Michigan’s Inpatient Psychiatric Bed Registry, allowing callers — from ER staff to parents — to learn sooner if there is an available psychiatric bed or service in their area.

U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, and Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, helped lead an effort this spring to earmark $489 million in federal funds to expand Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers, part of a federal network that can immediately screen people in crisis, regardless of their ability to pay, and get them help. Of the amount, nearly $20 million is headed for Michigan to support efforts at five Detroit centers.

Early intervention part two: school screenings

In 2018, the Lansing-based advocacy nonprofit Disability Rights Michigan filed a class-action suit, K.B. v. Lyon, accusing the state of Michigan of “staggering failures to provide needed mental health services to thousands of children and their families.”

Kyle Williams, director of legal advocacy for the advocacy group, said one crucial step in addressing systemic failures is a universal screening tool that would identify children in need, trigger a full assessment, and connect them to services before they spiral into crisis. It could be used by school counselors for a child acting out in class or staff at a juvenile justice facility after a child has been picked up by police, he said.

A child in crisis “doesn’t have the time to wait three years for an intensive service array,” Williams said.

“If you don’t pair home- and community-based services (with inpatient care), you’re looking at a cycle in which kids end up in an ER bed, return to the community, and keep destabilizing, then return to the ER again,” Williams said.

Details are still being hammered out in a settlement agreement in the lawsuit after several extensions — the latest extension is to Sept. 1.

Ease bureaucracy

Parents have enough worry when a child is in crisis. But many are forced to change jobs or quit to become full-time advocates for their children as they work through layers of bureaucracy, said Jane Shank, executive director of the Lansing-based Association for Children’s Mental Health.

“Parents get beaten down a little,” she said.

As it stands now, Medicaid funds flow through Michigan’s mental health managed care system which is made up of 10 Prepaid Inpatient Health Plans, or PIHPs, throughout the state.

They pay for treatment and services at local Community Mental Health Agencies, which, in turn, may contract with other providers. With each layer, accountability disappears, according to critics.

Rep. Whiteford said she would replace the state’s 10 managed care organizations with a single oversight body — moving the state closer to a fee-for-service health system and making the state accountable rather than diffusing accountability through layers of managed care bureaucracy.

It also would lead to “significant reduction in administrative costs,” according to the nonpartisan Michigan House Fiscal Agency. Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, whose overhaul plan includes privatizing much of mental health care, and who also wants to downsize or eliminate the PIHP managed care system.

Critics argue, however, that such plans replace one layer of a bureaucracy with another and that projected cost savings are exaggerated.

“It’s a different terrain across the state — the availability of services, the availability of staff,” said Kevin Fischer, of the Michigan chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

He said the Whiteford and Shirkey plans include good ideas, but he worries about moving to a single managed care system or oversight agency.

Locally run managed care matches local needs to the best local resources, he said, saving money and providing better care.

“The people in Houghton or Marquette (in the Upper Peninsula) know what they need better than the people in Detroit do,” he said.

More telemed to reach distant children

The field of telemedicine dramatically expanded during the pandemic, in part due to relaxation of regulations by the federal government and private insurers amid COVID-19.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study noted a 154% increase in telemedicine usage in March 2020, as the pandemic first hit, compared with the previous year. Telemedicine can be useful for people without reliable transportation or from rural areas without a nearby provider. It can also help parents avoid taking time from work to transport children to therapist appointments.

With so many regions in Michigan and Indiana lacking in mental health providers, strengthening telehealth can help improve access to care.

But barriers remain. Indiana-based research shows Black and rural populations are less likely to have reliable internet or a home computer. And despite a year of remote learning, children may have more trouble engaging with mental health professionals on the computer.

It remains unclear whether private insurers will continue to pay for telehealth visits once the pandemic fades. Policies can differ by insurer, state or particular plan. Many states, including Michigan, have enacted parity laws that require insurers to equitably cover in-person and telemedicine visits.

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What’s Up With Your Weekend, 5/4-6/18:

Friday:

Sacramento Gem Faire: Gem Faire is in Sacramento once again. Soul Currents will be bringing so many new gems and minerals. Scottish Rite Center. Friday from 12-6PM, Saturday & Sunday from 10AM-5PM. $7 General Admission, Children under 11 years old are free.

Concerts in the Park: As the longest running outdoor happy hour, Concerts in the Park, is celebrating 27 years of music madness this year. Grab a cold beer, a bite to eat from one of our food trucks, and enjoy the tunes of local and national touring bands. Tonight, on the Buzzledom Stage: Cemetery Sun, Wylma, La Noche Oskura, and In the DJ Booth: HOFisbetter. Also, since May is Bike month CIP is encouraging you to ride your bike to the event where they have free valet bike parking, and free bike lights while supplies last. Cesar Chavez Park. 5-9PM. Free.

Oak Park First Fridays: Come visit all of the Oak Park Businesses while cruising through the corridor for May Bike Month! First Friday is an exciting community-oriented event that celebrates all that Oak Park has to offer and transforms the Broadway Corridor into an evening full of shopping, dining, arts installations, a pop up park, and festive community celebrations. It is a perfect place for dates, families, and friends. The Broadway Corridor from 37th Street to Alhambra. 5-9PM.

WAL Resident Artist Gallery: First Friday open studio event. Residents of the Warehouse Artist Lofts open their studios and share their work. Warehouse Artist Lofts, 2nd floor Community Room. 6-9PM. Free.

First Friday Art Show: Functional Continuity: Sacramento artist Andy Cunningham unveils 28 years of work in the exhibition titled: Functional Continuity. The Urban Hive, 1601 Alhambra Street, Suite #100. 6-9PM.

A Song For Coretta: Celebration Arts presents a play featuring five women, strangers to each other, wait in line to pay their respects to Coretta Scott King. Each has been deeply touched by Mrs. King's extraordinary life. Their stories brim with passion, personality, life-affirming energy and determination. 2727 B Street. Friday & Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 2PM. $20 general, $15 seniors and SARTA, $13 students.

Saturday:

Free Comic Book Day 2018: It’s Free Comic Book Day! A single day when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away selected comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores, with no purchase required and no strings attached! Fans new and old are welcome to Oblivion for free comics, store-wide sales, and fun events! Oblivion Comic & Coffee. 8AM-9PM.

River City Marketplace: Shop local, support art, handmade goods and small businesses of Sacramento. River City Marketplace will be hosting over 100 vendors on Cinco De Mayo at Fremont Park. Enjoy live music and local bites while you shop, and see what Sacramento's talent has to offer. Fremont Park. 11AM-5PM.

First Festival: First Festival is a music and arts festival celebrating its 4th year in Sacramento. Enjoy a weekend filled with live music that spans the genres. Enjoy craft beer from local breweries, custom cocktails, locally brewed coffee, delicious food of all kinds, and desserts that satisfy any sweet tooth! Find 4 stages outside packed with music and 1 indoor stage inside The Circus featuring comedy, DJ Dance Parties, Burlesque, Spoken Word, a Hip Hop Cypher each day and more. Major Headliners include Blackalicious, A Lot Like Birds, Butterscotch, Dog Party, Jonah Matranga, and Charlie Muscle. Tanzanite Park. Saturday & Sunday from 12-10PM. $25-55.

La Lucha de Hoy: A group of Latino/Latin American local artists will come together at the Latino Center of Arts and Culture in the first La Lucha de Hoy event, celebrating the fight of our people through different media. Local vendors, music and car clubs will gather in an evening event of relaxing and enjoying your community. Come eat, drink and live to fight another day. Latino Center of Art and Culture. 5-11PM. Free, Donation encouraged.

Sacramento Black Book Faire: The Sacramento Black Book Fair is in it's 5th Year, and this year they are bringing their 1st Film Festival, hosted by The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex. Throughout the month of May they will offer several films, with engaging topics that are addressing the "Black" community today. Tonight’s screening will feature “I Am Not Your Negro” - a film that envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original words, as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson. The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex. 6-9PM. Free.

Tosca: The Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera presents Puccini's masterpiece of intrigue and betrayal, of passion and deception! See cast and chorus in full costume and make up with dramatic lighting. The orchestra, on stage during the production, will be situated on a specially designed set to enhance the visual beauty of the performance and place Puccini's orchestra at the heart of the action. Performed with projected English surtitles. Community Center Theater. 8PM. $38-75.

Sunday:

Urban Roots Garden Building: Urban Roots Garden Builds helps people grow food and eat healthy. They install no-cost gardens to increase access to healthy food, increase physical activity, and encourage healthy eating. Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to install a garden, install drip irrigation, transplant seedlings, and make a positive impact in our community. Oak Park Community Center. 9AM-2PM. Free.

Fiesta En La Calle - Cinco de Mayo Festival: Don't miss the Largest Cinco De Mayo Festival in Sacramento! Featuring performances by: Maya, Sugar High, Don Gato & De’anza, Ballet Folklorico, Danzantes Aztecas, Samba Dancers and Salsa Dancers. Lots of music, food, drinks, snacks, and fun for everyone. Southside Park. 11AM-6PM. Free.

Pump Up The Volume at Crest Theatre: One of the best teen movies from 90′s features the Christian Slater as Mark who runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens. Crest Theatre. 7PM. $9.50 General Admission, $7.50 Student/Seniors.

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Flowers Vineyard & Winery, California

Flowers Vineyard & Winery, CA Business, Californian Guest Experience, US Building, Images

Flowers Vineyard & Winery in Healdsburg, CA

Nov 30, 2020

House of Flowers

Design: Walker Warner Architects

Location: Healdsburg, California, USA

House of Flowers’ new guest experience breathes new life into a cherished local landmark to become a destina-tion resort-style estate dedicated to the celebration of wine, food, and the natural landscape.

Located minutes from downtown Healdsburg, in the heart of Russian River Valley, and originally built as a winery in the mid-70s, the facilities on this 13.5 acre estate had deteriorated and become outdated. Long known for its rustic charm and authentic connection to nature, the site held promise.

By coinci-dence, Flowers Vineyard & Winery was looking for a venue to showcase their sustainably produced wines within a setting that expressed their nature-based ethos. Opportunity met serendipity to become a perfect union of context and intent, and a home for Flowers’ hospitality house.

The challenge was how to evolve the existing collection of facilities and preserve the natural legacy while ensuring that the venue could meet the expectations of today and become a destination in its own right. “Our approach was deceptively simple,” notes Brooks Walker, principal at Walker Warner Architects. “Let nature dominate and use architecture to frame the experience. Ultimately, it’s about the experience of this place.”

Set within a redwood grove, the existing buildings were largely disconnected from their rich landscape. The strategy was to find ways to reconnect visitors to the landscape while reimagining what was a se-ries of simple industrial buildings. This reinvigorated journey began by investing the site with a sense of orientation.

New pathways lead visitors from the parking area to the updated visitor cen-ter. Previously a warehouse, the new hospitality house provides guests with an orientation to the site and introduces the Flowers’ story.

As with the other existing on-site structures, the 15,700-square-foot hospitality house has been stained a shadowy black—inspired by the deep shade of the surrounding redwood grove—to help the buildings recede into the site and allow the landscape to become the focus.

Remodeling the existing structures rather than building anew aligned with the Flowers’ commitment to sustainability. The approach, which enabled most of the original structure to be ‘recycled,’ gave focus to the design efforts, elevating what was already present.

Passive energy strategies—low-cost, high-impact—were maximized and included taking advantage of daylight (skylight and large windows) and shade (exterior wood slats serve as a veil while the surrounding redwood grove offers additional shade). Sustainability is reinforced through several large, monumental functional wood installations made of salvaged logs by artist Evan Shively.

Tucked discretely into the landscape, the transformation involved adding a pop-up element at one end of the single-story hospitality house. The addition knits building with topography, resulting in a multi-level facility that preserves the modest vernacular forms while providing seamless access to the stun-ning views and gardens afforded by the hilltop. The airy hilltop structure serves as a transition to the spacious gardens and provides sheltered seating and amenity spaces, including an outdoor wood-fired oven.

The interiors are bright thanks to bleached cypress siding, completing the yin-yang (dark-light) relationship of outside to inside. “The architectural expression is understated,” notes Mike McCabe, principal at Walker Warner Architects. “It isn’t about making a statement. It’s about creating a place that can unify the values that are important to the Flowers’ brand—celebrating nature and local context with what’s important to the site and the community.” The desire, note the Flowers owners, was to “create an environment where guests feel like they are entering our home, experiencing wines crafted without compromise and shared without pretension.”

Guests can experience a variety of intimate gatherings areas to savor Flowers’ Sonoma Coast wines both inside as well as outside. Upon entering, guests are led to the second floor which includes the sun room, the dining room and living areas as well as more private spaces for VIP guests. The gardens, framed by existing refurbished rammed-earth walls, bring the experience into sharper focus, unfolding as a series of quiet eddies intended for gathering, tasting wine, and celebrating nature.

The site occupies the boundary between the gridded vineyard and agricultural fields of the Russian River and is situated amongst the oak-grassland foothills leading up to the coastal redwood forests that surround Flowers’ estate vineyards on the extreme Sonoma Coast. The terraced gardens feature plant communities indica-tive of each surrounding ecological typology.

New board-formed concrete walls were added to the land-scape as needed, serving as a counterpoint and augmenting the series of exposed archaeologies. Togeth-er, landscape and architecture combine to provide a quiet refuge, a place to celebrate community and friends through the experience of wine.

Quotes below are from Mike McCabe, Principal for Walker Warner Architects “We designed House of Flowers to be an experience that reveals itself slowly. Each step is choreo-graphed and builds upon the preceding movement to emphasize contrasts and connections. It begins with the entry sequence through a grove of redwoods which leads you to the building with its dark stained exterior skin that’s nestled in the shadows.

After moving along the path, the main entry’s glow-ing interiors of bald cypress siding serve as a beacon that calls the visitor inside. After being greeted, you walk up the open-framed staircase and as you rise, the gardens and the dramatic views across the vineyards are framed and finally revealed, drawing you out into the landscape.”

“The region’s strong, simple vernacular forms served as guide and reference point to help root the archi-tecture to its setting. By visually refining the structures, simplifying the palette and abstracting the tra-ditional vernacular detailing, we attempted to create an architectural expression that honors the local context while making the visitor feel at home and at ease. Ultimately, the intent was to take forms and elements that are comfortable and familiar and use them to make extraordinary spaces for visitors.”

“Over the past 30 years our work at Walker Warner has been primarily focused on the design of homes, spaces that are intimate, comfortable and enduring. We approached the House of Flowers with this point of view as our starting point.

The visitor should feel as though they have arrived at the home of a good friend. Rather than put the focus on the architecture, it is our hope that guests are at ease and their attention is focused on sharing experiences over delicious food and amazing wine in an un-matched context.”

“The architectural expression is understated. It isn’t about making a statement. It’s about creating a place that can unify the values that are important to the Flowers’ brand—celebrating nature and local context with what’s important to the site and the community.”

Quotes below are from Maca Huneeus of Maca Huneeus Design “Our biggest challenge was to convert an already existing building that lacked in character into some-thing appealing that people would want to go visit. There are so many new developments that we thought recycling what was already there and keeping it simple was the way to go. We didn’t want to do a massive intimidating building as Healdsburg has always had a down to earth character.”

“Because of the volume of the red wood building and the unappealing stain of the wood I thought a Scandinavian vibe of black exterior and a lighter interior would translate really well in Healdsburg and address our challenges.”

“I first created inspirational boards that gave us (the architect, landscape and design team) a cohesive narrative for the design. The idea was always to make people feel comfortable as if they were visiting a friend’s home in the countryside. Hence we made a library, a fireplace area, a terrace, a living room, etc. We kept the materials elemental to give it an authentic country vibe (wood, linens, wool, ceramics).”

“The garden had a beautiful rammed earth structure with a patina so we worked with the shapes of those to make architectural gardens for people to seat and enjoy a glass of wine in an authentic country environment.”

Quotes below are from Thomas Woltz of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects “The landscape design at the House of Flowers amplifies distinct California landscape ecologies creating a deeply rooted sense of place and a narrative consistent with Flowers’ authentic winemaking”

“Embodying distinct and iconic California ecologies, the House of Flowers landscape design bridges the distance between its Russian River Valley location and the vineyards along the bluffs of the Sonoma Coast. The terraces and gardens evoke the terrain where the featured Pinot Noir and Chardonnay varie-ties and the story of Flowers Winery itself originate.”

“In the terraced planting strategies at House of Flowers, the visitor is immersed in distinct California ecologies: Redwood Forest, Oak Woodland, and Chaparral landscapes, with the vineyards and distant ridges of the Mayacamas Mountains on the horizon.”

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Design: Walker Warner Architects Team Mike McCabe, Principal, LEED AP Brooks Walker, Principal, LEED AP Sharon Okada, Senior Project Manager, LEED AP Architectural Staff: Matthew Marsten, Hana Bittner, Darcy Arioli, Vivi Lowery

Project Consultant Team Walker Warner Architects (architecture) Maca Huneeus Design (interiors) Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (landscape architecture) Alexis Woods Landscape Design (consulting local landscape architecture) Anna Kondolf Lighting Design (lighting design) Daedalus Structural Engineering (structural engineering) Cello & Madru Construction Company (contractor) Arborica (reclaimed wood)

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