A lovely time

(1976 August 13)

Wednesday night I had a lovely time. David Kopitzke, museum director, invited me to dinner served on the roof of the [Frank Lloyd Wright] Warehouse. When I went thru the building, it all seemed so much like going thru a basement - dirty & dark & cementy. So when I got off the elevator, I was amazed at the transformation - blooming flowers in white tubs, long tables with white cloths & red cloth napkins, candles, vases of flowers, nice silver. Beef brats were being cooked in two or three big black cookers, and the salads and desserts!! Four different beverages, the most fascinating was the beer, which required a good pumping up before a glass was drawn. The Board gave the dinner so some Richland Center people could meet the students from Taliesin [Wright's school in nearby Spring Green], and I sat between two, and some were indeed fantastically garbed.