One of the Council's critical issues for 2009 is stated as follows: We SUPPORT the State of Wisconsin continuing its contracts helping to support the Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
Such an impressive, inspiring interior space -- 200 feet from the ground floor to the highest point of the dome's ceiling.
Many of the people I interacted with were not legislative day participants but students, teachers, and parent chaperones on end-of-the-school-year field trips -- endless waves of school groups, it seemed.
The kids loved the Campaign for Wisconsin Libraries pins, though, in truth, they would have been equally possessive of a pin that said Libraries Suck. Their concern was the medium, not the message.
A composition (above) to excite the likes of D. W. Griffith.
Maybe I need to get my eyes checked. When I first saw what's actually a badger perched on the portico over the Hearing Room, I wondered what the hell's a frog doing up there.
Imagine all the craftsmanship that went into the original construction.
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