Rachel had a day off school on Monday and she stayed at our house. After the flood last summer, many of the places that had Dick Pinney murals were closed. They have started to reopen and we used Rachel’s day with me to see a couple more.
The first was at Alliant Energy. When I called to find out about the mural I was connected to the secretary to the president of the company. Little did I realize she was the same woman who was his secretary when we all worked at City Hall together over 20 years ago. We drove downtown and were signed in amid fairly heavy security and saw the mural on the sixth floor. It was not as big as some we have seen, but it was fairly elaborate.
Later in the afternoon I called around and found another one. This was in the Coe College Library. It turned out not to be a mural like his others, but a little model of a building that housed a miniature dance studio complete with ballerinas.
Lucky Rachel. What needs so much guarding at Alliant Energy?
I had Rachel Saturday night and part of Sunday. THAT was lucky.
So which mural was it? And no picture?
Never mind about the picture question, they didn’t come up until after I posted the reply.
Everybody is lucky, it seems, to have Rachel stay the weekend! Great finds Butch.