Glare Report 10/7: finished Ice Palaces
Oct. 7th, 2004 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI finished reading my research book Ice Palaces while at work today. I worked on reconciling my checkbook tonight after the girls were in bed rather than spending the time on writing stuff. Gotta keep those plates spinning, even if I'm back to novel writing.
Ice Palaces was pretty good, but I felt greedy for more. I wanted much more information on structural detail, especially, and all the hoary details of actually building the things. The book included drawings for several palaces which were planned but never built, due to unseasonably warm weather. Presumably I could easily swipe one for my own ice palace.
There was a mention of someone named Robert Olsen, who in 1975 when he was a student at St. Olaf College (my alma mater) came and asked the St. Paul Carnival committee why they weren't building ice palaces anymore. So they told him, "Why don't you build one?" And he did, a rather modestly sized one, and got college credit for it--I suspect it was his interim project. Anyway, the book called him an "ice palace historian." I wonder if he might have some of the sorts of info I'm looking for and I could track him down through the college's alumni office. With a name like Robert Olsen, he should be real easy to find here in Minnesota[/sarcasm]. Hmm. My sister was class of '76, I think; maybe she'll remember him? I'll have to ask her.
Ice Palaces was pretty good, but I felt greedy for more. I wanted much more information on structural detail, especially, and all the hoary details of actually building the things. The book included drawings for several palaces which were planned but never built, due to unseasonably warm weather. Presumably I could easily swipe one for my own ice palace.
There was a mention of someone named Robert Olsen, who in 1975 when he was a student at St. Olaf College (my alma mater) came and asked the St. Paul Carnival committee why they weren't building ice palaces anymore. So they told him, "Why don't you build one?" And he did, a rather modestly sized one, and got college credit for it--I suspect it was his interim project. Anyway, the book called him an "ice palace historian." I wonder if he might have some of the sorts of info I'm looking for and I could track him down through the college's alumni office. With a name like Robert Olsen, he should be real easy to find here in Minnesota[/sarcasm]. Hmm. My sister was class of '76, I think; maybe she'll remember him? I'll have to ask her.