Dreamland Lake (2000)
“To start the ball rolling, what could be easier? He’d have jumped at it. Of course if it had been left up to me, I’d never have gone near him. But since it was Flip who was managing things—as usual—it had to be elaborate. And, as Miss Klimer would say, “preoccupied with the grotesque.”
He was still carrying around A Centennial History of the City of Dunthorpe, Black Hawk County, and Environs. He kept renewing it at the library, even though we didn’t have much time to continue on our local histo...ry kick. The librarian must have been overjoyed to have old Estella Winkler Bates off her shelves all spring.
So one day, while we were making the deliveries, he started carrying on about the Municipal Art Museum—not one of our regular hangouts. He must have been reading up on it in study hall. “Built as a palatial residence by Marius Benderman, drainpipe and ceramic tile tycoon, in 1878,” he quoted, more or less from memory.
“No kidding,” I said.
“An eclectic structure, basically Italianate, with the popular Gothic embellishments of the period.MoreLess
He was still carrying around A Centennial History of the City of Dunthorpe, Black Hawk County, and Environs. He kept renewing it at the library, even though we didn’t have much time to continue on our local histo...ry kick. The librarian must have been overjoyed to have old Estella Winkler Bates off her shelves all spring.
So one day, while we were making the deliveries, he started carrying on about the Municipal Art Museum—not one of our regular hangouts. He must have been reading up on it in study hall. “Built as a palatial residence by Marius Benderman, drainpipe and ceramic tile tycoon, in 1878,” he quoted, more or less from memory.
“No kidding,” I said.
“An eclectic structure, basically Italianate, with the popular Gothic embellishments of the period.MoreLess
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