Lancaster Theological Seminary
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 9:20PM The Lark Building, a fantastically imaginative Romanesque Revival building dating to 1894, sits back all but hidden behind tall trees, and garners little attention at the edges of the Franklin and Marshall College campus in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but it is one of the architectural gems of its era. As inventive, exaggerated, and exuberant as any of the better known piles by Frank Furness in nearby Philadelphia, it is a delightful surprise for anyone who will look up from their goddamned handheld wireless digital mind numbing device for long enough to notice their physical surroundings. Here is a quick drawing of it, done hastily in the heat that I ought not complain about (it might be nearly 90 degrees fahrenheit an hour after sundown, but it isn't as bad as Phoenix, Arizona here), and while slapping tiny but nastily potent mosquitoes. I've meant to draw this for quite some time, but it's intimidated me until this evening while I had a little time to fill waiting for my son to finish practicing for his part in an upcoming service at the Unitarian church a few blocks away. I'll have to give it another go when the heat and biting insects are less ferocious.
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My mother's younger brother, Leslie Kreider, graduated from the Lancaster Theological Seminary many years ago. I remember using the tennis courts nearby about 30 years ago. That's when I found out my Beloved could not handle a tennis racket. It didn't matter. <g>