[Dialogue] re turn to the world

[Nancy Lanphear]

Dear Colleagues,

Although the turn symbol that I am speaking of may not be THE very large and
weighty one that you are remembering, Steve - although it is that in
relationship to say, the iron crosses that hung in our houses since the
beginning of time.  The task we took on was also heavy and weighty, intense
and incredible!  What a great symbol!  The circle of the turn symbol here at
Songaia is only 25 inches in diameter.

This conversation is great!  Thanks,

Nancy

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:59 AM, steve har <stevehar11201 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The very large and weighty turn symbol was welded by Oscar Sperstad who
> along with Roberta lived near Eau Clare, Wisc. As I remember, it showed up,
> unmovable, on the 2nd floor. I don't know what happened to it or how it
> began.
>
> Reminds me one time when I was working at the Russian Federal Securities
> Commission in the 1990s trying to help organize a conference of capitalists.
> Back stage there was a car-sized bust of Lenin that wouldn't be moved, so
> people just walked around it on the way to their power point pitches for
> having a USA style "market" economy.
>
> Wiegel burned the research eh? No wonder I'm confused. Sounds like Canticle
> for Libowitz where the old models were destroyed and people spent centuries
> trying to figure out why electricity works because they lost the original
> thinking on which the inventions were build.
>
> Those that don't remember, or forgot, get to re-live it I think.
>
> It would be interesting to have a challenge question like what are the top
> 50 innovations in the archives that were innovations then and might be in
> the future.
>
> Anyone have a candidate innovation from the old days that might have a
> future?
>
> --
> Steve Harrington
>
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