This was raspberry. It was really really good. No wonder they brag about it.
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Though the guests all wanted juice or ice water, as it turned out.
The cups come from my great aunt Agnes Roche, aka Tante, who used them to offer tea to the young women in Schafer Hall at Wellesley, where she was housemother, circa 1936. The silver sugar bowl and spoons and the brass tray are all from Iran--again many years back.
The cloth is also from Iran, a kalamkar--a wood block print on fabric.
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A Marinette, WI institution. Great burgers, too.
The Abby Beecher Roberts house (1937) in Deertrack. Wright did not approve of many of the changes the owners made to his design.
Abby Beecher Roberts was the mother-in-law of Frank Lloyd Wright's student, John Lautner, and supervising this building was one of the first jobs Lautner did for Wright. You can read more about it in a great interview with Lautner, available at www.archive.org/details/responsibilityin00laut
More and better photos, including some of the inside on the Wright chat forum
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In Deertrack, just outside Marquette
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