Photography by Kurt W. Wagner and Victoria S. Heenan with Fuji MX-1200 Digital Camera, May 11-13, 2000.

For Christmas Victoria promised me a trip to see Frank Lloyd Wright's house "Falling Water." She planned out a long weekend excursion and off we went!

• 71 N. 10th St., Hawthorne, NJ, 5/11/00. We live on the second floor. Look sharp and you can see Victoria locking the front door.
• Ascending the Duquesne Incline.
• Pittsburgh, PA. Goodyear blimp overhead.
• The Allegheny (center) meets the Monongahela (right) to form the Ohio River.
• We should be reading The Organization, I suppose.
• The Incline does its up-and-down thing.
• We filled out a little survey about the Incline service.
• We enter "Kennywood", a great little amusement park. 5/12/00.
• The "Steel Phantom" nears the high point. We rode this thing, with three loops, a corkscrew and a death-defying drop.
• Don't worry about the hat, OK? We'll do a "Hodip" page pretty soon, and you'll get your answers then. Suffice it to say it's funny to us.
• Not sure what Kennywood's mascot is, but that's us together.
• Would you ride on this? Well, we wouldn't.
• They take you up 251 feet and then drop you! I might have been pursuaded to try this one, but my companion was not at all willing.
• The Racer is one of those old, wooden, noisy, wonderful coasters!
• Victoria likes roller coasters.
• Swappin yarns with Cowboy Joe.
• Saturday, 5/13, we explored the Andy Warhol Museum.
• Victoria and "Clouds".
• "Clouds".
• One of the Campbell's Soup canvases.
• Mao.
• Skull.
• You'll never get a deal like this again.
• At the Carnegie Science Center we explored mirrors.
• In the food laboratory.
• If only we had the video of this.
• WW2 era submarine USS Requin.
• Pittsburgh skyline...a gorgeous day.
• Victoria and Pittsburgh skyscraper.
• Sunday, 5/14. Falling Water nestled in the trees.
• A closer look.
• The classic view of a magnificent house.
• From the driveway you can see the cantilevered terraces.
• Bear Run lends its music to the setting.
• Statue at the edge of the water. A stout chain holds it from being swept away if the stream floods.
• In the kitchen, glass flows right into the sandstone.
• Not liking corners, Wright made this one dissappear. Just to the left of the trees you can just barely see the corner of glass.
• Barely there kitchen. Wright didn't devote much creatvity to the cooking facility.
• Beside the front entrance is a little pool for washing off.
• Fireplace. Red urn was supposed to be used to heat wine, but was ungainly and seldom used.
• Living room, reading area.
• Wright used the "great room" idea fifty years before it was popular.
• Almost all the furniture, like this music center, is built-in.
• Each wall, each window, is a work of art.
• Unique corner windows.
• Tenth century Indian statue in hallway.
• Statue among rhododendrons on walkway to the guest house.

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