Friday, January 15, 2010

Frank Lloyd Wright....naked?

Along with being a great mechanic, my father was also the king of B.S.  You know, that fertilizer that comes from a male bovine.  Yeah, my dad could sling it with the best of them.  One story my father would always "B.S." about involved a certain famous American architect and a tractor.

Now, just to set the record straight, this is a story my father would tell every time Frank Lloyd Wright would be mentioned in some news story or in conversation. Mr. Wright's name would come up often because we live in Southern Wisconsin not very far from his Taliesin home in Spring Green Wisconsin.  Anytime my dad would hear the name "Frank Lloyd Wright" my father would pipe in  "You know, I saw Frank Lloyd Wright naked once!"

Plus, as far as truthfulness is concerned, I don't recall the story changing much every time he told it.  If there was embellishment involved in my father's Frank Lloyd Wright story, it must have been done when he first started telling his eyewitness account.  There is no "Dead Sea Scrolls" version of my father's story to verify its historicity.  And one more thing, I dont think my dad was the type of guy to make up a story about seeing another man naked.