LITTLE GEMS
Art in the Park.
This special annual presentation by the Geneva Lake Arts Foundation will take place this weekend. The 43rd Annual Art in the Park will run from Saturday, August 12th, from 10 a.m. through 5 p.m., and Sunday, August 13th, from 10 a.m. through 4 p.m., all in Flat Iron Park. This fine art show will feature more than eighty distinguished artists, and include a variety of art from clay, pottery, fiber, glass, metal, painting of all kinds, sculptures, wood, photography, media, any and all kinds. Get ready to be awed and inspired.
Joanie the Diner, like Tommy Two Cans, went to ground this last week, or at least back to the strange diner she works at and is known for.
She teamed up with Mayor Mayor, the two of them act like really gentle but not so capable members (way down the pecking order) of the Corleone family. The last meeting of the Hillmoor ad hoc committee is coming up and that ‘idea’ machine operation will drift away into a dissipating cloud of nothingness. Hillmoor does not, and did not, need ideas. It needs money and then more money to operate whatever is developed on that property. A park is not going to work. A nine-hole golf course is not going to work. In order to keep the property from being developed for commercial, or even residential housing, the city bought the acreage.
Now the city is the ‘developer,’ for all intents and purposes, but without as much freedom as the previous developer/owner might have had. What a roiling mess, with no brilliance at the helm to resolve this kind of situation. Recreation use means just that. A performing arts center would serve to offer all of what might be needed although, like with the “Y” moving in, or a golf course, would require an outlay of money that might choke the city’s pocketbook, or the willingness of the public to risk spending tens of millions to hold and sustain the place.
Look for flagmen and survey instruments along that stretch of Highway 50 for the next few weeks, as the state is doing its own archeological and historical significance studies as it prepares to tear that thoroughfare up over the next few years. The near future of Lake Geneva is going to bring galvanic and torturous change to the entire geographic area. The current leadership is neither experienced enough, intelligent enough, nor caring enough to handle these coming events the way it is currently organized. The new parks manager is about to be selected and installed under Tom Earle’s management and control. Hopefully, this analytically and highly trained botanist being hired is ready to work on filling potholes while working with some hot tar (no feathers yet to be distributed).
Persons of the Week
Dennis and Marsha are wonderful friends of the GSR. Thank you for your hospitality.
