Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will begin with clouds and grow increasingly sunny as the day progresses. We’ll have a high of seventy-one.
Friday’s FW poll asked whether a pilot or a sunbather was more to blame for a near-accident between an airplane and the vacationer. The plurality of respondents (45.83%) thought the sunbather was more to blame, with 29.17% blaming the pilot, and 25% finding both equally responsible.
Lightning storms pack enormous power, as one tree in New York learned the hard way:
On this day in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright is born:
On this date Frank Lincoln Wright (he changed his middle name after his parents divorced) was born in Richland Center. An architect, author, and social critic, Wright’s artistic genius demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to create architectural space and vocabulary that drew inspiration from both nature and technology.
The son of William Cary Wright, a lawyer and music teacher, and Anna Lloyd Jones, a school teacher, Frank Lloyd Wright’s family moved to Madison in 1877 to be near Anna’s family in Spring Green. Wright briefly studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, after which he moved to Chicago to pursue a career in architecture.
Wright started his own firm in 1893 and between 1893 and 1901, 49 buildings designed by Wright were built. Some notable Frank Lloyd Wright structures in Wisconsin include S.C. Johnson and Son, Inc. Administration Building in Racine, the A.D. German Warehouse in Richland Center, and Taliesin and Hillside in Spring Green. The Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison was also based on Wright’s design. Frank Lloyd Wright died on April 9, 1959, in Phoenix, Arizona. [Source: American National Biography, Vol. 24, 1999, p.15]
Here’s Wright, in 1956, on the program What’s My Line? —