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Re: Chicago Conlangcon!

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Thursday, August 22, 2002, 8:31
Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> I too could come to Chicago, just about any time (such a busy schedule, > y'know).
Ah, good! It looks like there will be a not inconsiderable crowd, considering: you, me, Clint, Eric, Eric's friend, and one of my friends here who's considering starting his first conlang. Doesn't Mark Rosenfelder live in Chicago? I suppose we could invite him too.
> Haven't been there is years, and it's a great city.
Oh, indeed. Looking at the calendar of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, I see that Yo-Yo Ma will be playing traditional Chinese, Persian and various Asian pieces on the weekend of the 24-26th of October. The Art Institute has as always some interesting stuff going on, but the real prize, the Michelangelo exhibit, won't be coming up until November. The Museum of Science and Industry -- also located near the University in Hyde Park -- has a great exhibit of items from the Titanic rescued from the seafloor, including a massive piece of the hull (!). That ends on Oct. 31st. The Field Museum's temporary exhibitions don't look too gripping for late October, but they do have Sue, the most complete T-Rex found, on permanent exhibition. In Hyde Park, there are two Frank Lloyd Wright Houses, one of which you can tour, and if you're bored you can also stop and gawk at the (IMHO ugly) statue built on the spot on campus of the first controlled, man-made nuclear reaction. (If the latter, just make sure you avert your eyes from the architectural abomination of a dorm they recently erected behind it.) Lots of touristy stuff to do, in other words. (It is not for nothing that native Chicagoans see their city as the navel of the universe -- it was very weird for me upon moving here to hear about "Chicagoland", as if downstate Illinois were always an afterthought.) ========================================================================= Thomas Wier Dept. of Linguistics "Nihil magis praestandum est quam ne pecorum ritu University of Chicago sequamur antecedentium gregem, pergentes non qua 1010 E. 59th Street eundum est, sed qua itur." -- Seneca Chicago, IL 60637

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