BCA to host W for OFTA

Okay, so the acronyms shouldn't be flying. The Buchanan Center for the Arts (BCA) is going to be host for Old Friends Talk Arts (OFTA), per their monthly tradition, and this month they will host my old drawing instructor from Monmouth College, George Waltershausen ("W", or "Dub", for those of us who were too lazy to say the whole letter). W will be speaking tomorrow morning on one of his greater passions -- one he never bothered to hide from us -- trains. Itty bitty ones, this time. According to the e-mail from Jim DeYoung, W will feature a speech on

“The Art(?) and Architecture of Model Railroading”

Or

“A Retired Guy Explores New Sculptural Avenues Within the Exigencies of the Horizontal Imperative.”
(He agreed to do this talk only if he could get in a few stories and some humor.)

Now who would dare tackle the subject above with all of its promise of depth, scope, and aesthetic intricacy? OFTA presents an “OF” extraordinaire,

Mr. George Waltershausen.

The e-mail indicates his interest in wee locomotives is new, but I still recall the story he told of enrolling at my alma mater's rival, Knox College, because the school was situated right next to the big Burlington Northern switching yards... and then when he arrived, he learned, to his bitter disappointment, that the yards had been closed down since the beginning of the summer. He was always a sucker for a choo-choo... I can't say I blame him.

And, he has always been an entertaining and informative lecturer/instructor.

I hope to be able to attend, and perhaps, if you are in the neighborhood of Beautiful Downtown Monmouth, IL, you will be there too. Ten o'clock in the a.m. Buchanan Center, southwest corner of the Square. I'll be the one waiting under the clock, with the gardenia in my hair ;-)