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2005

4 entries

  1. Wednesday, June 1, 2005 · Don Krumpos

    Florence: Arrival

    June 2005 --- There was a time, not much earlier, when I thought this was impossible. A poor farmboy from Kewaunee County with two kids and a house and no money does not go to Florence. That's for other people.…

  2. Thursday, June 2, 2005 · Don Krumpos

    Florence: The Art That Built

    June 2005 --- Each one impressed me more than the last. That's how Chris had planned it, I think — a sequence, not a checklist. You don't start with the thing that will flatten you. You build up to it.…

  3. Friday, June 3, 2005 · Don Krumpos

    Florence: Drawing and Printing Everything

    Summer 2005 --- I drew constantly. On benches, on church steps, on the low walls along the Arno. I drew tourists who didn't know they were being drawn. I drew buildings from imagination and then looked up and compared. I…

  4. Saturday, June 4, 2005 · Don Krumpos

    Florence: Running the Old City

    Summer 2005 --- Florence is a hilly city. I learned this with my lungs. I ran most every day that summer, and the hills made sure I earned every block. The streets climb away from the river in every direction…