Ah yes, the KC Art Museum! One of the best in the country that I have seen! A magical place!
There was a lot of wildlife and serenity at that CAE. You are the first person I have heard of who stayed there once it was completed! - I left when the building was 90% complete. If you passed a strawberry and apple juice stand coming into the property, on the left, that was my original living quarters, with six or seven other staffers. It was a cinder block garage that we put a 55 gallon drum in the center of. We also had a cold water shower. In the winter, we would throw coal into the drum until it glowed red hot, to try to keep the garage and ourselves, warm. Slept fully clothed, with down jacket and boots, inside a down sleeping bag, and it was *still* cold. During the day we worked in below freezing temperatures on the building construction site. God help you if you tore a hole in your boot, and got your foot wet. Ate a lot of sub-par vegetarian grub. It was like living in Siberia. But I was young and strong, and there was great camaraderie amongst us serfs, so it was always more adventure, than hardship. Later as the building completed, we got to move into rooms there. --- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > 20 years ago me and my MA in SCI classmates and Ken and Wendy Cavanaugh > stayed at the Kansas City CAE. Wendy took us to the wonderful art museum in > KC and Ken took his students to some monetary place. The CAE was on a > beautiful piece of land and we decorated a Christmas tree and saw a herd of > deer running across the front lawn. There was snow on the ground. It was > quite wonderful (-: > <snip> > >
