A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 05, 2010
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On relocating to New York’s Hudson Valley in mid-2008, I was delighted to discover that two of the giants of American technology and popular culture in the 20th century were born right here in Vacationland. Frank Lloyd Wright, with his cousins Orville and Wilbur, invented the aeroplane and the prairies, and the oceans white with foam. Orson Welles was f…

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