Well, I finally got around to posting the gallery of photos that I took during a visit to the Princeton Writers Block Garden on October 31, whittling it down to 47 photos.
I was going to provide more detailed captions, but figured that it was senseless to reproduce the information that one can find at the main Princeton Writers Block Garden site. Be sure to check out the Auction Results page for descriptions of the follies and the price that they went for at auction (links removed).
I have devoted three posts to this exhibition because it is my way of applauding the significant achievement of these visionary artists. They temporarily turned a vacant lot, which will now become residential housing, into an inspirational public space that not only brought together the university and community (“town and gown”), but also facilitated collaboration among representatives from a broad swath of academic disciplines, including creative writing, architecture, visual arts, history, and even physics. Brilliant.
Update 5/4/06: I removed the links to the PWBG site because it went away. It’s always a shame when another website just disappears like snow in spring.
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