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Kentuck Knob

Kentuck Knob is a crescent-shaped one story Usonian house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the site in rural Stewart Township near Chalk Hill, in Fayette County Pennsylvania. The house, which is about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The house, also known in some architectural publications as the Hagen House, is sited on Chestnut Ridge, the western-most range of the Allegheny Mountains in southwestern Pennsylvania. It is recessed into the southern side of a 2,050-foot (620 m) high geological formation known locally as Kentuck Knob. It is located south of Pennsylvania State Route 2010 roughly four miles from Wright's internationally-celebrated Falling Water. It has a sweeping view of the Youghiogheny River gorge, although the view of surrounding hills and farmland has been somewhat enclosed by trees planted by the original owners, I.N. (Isaac Newton) and Bernardine Hagen, who owned the property until its sale in 1986 for $600,000. The second owner, Lord Palumbo, bought the house and grounds as a vacation home, but since 1996, the Palumbo family has combined part-time residency at Kentuck Knob with a public tour program in a manner reminiscent of the Great houses of Great Britain.

Architectural characteristics

The Hagen House was begin in 1953, when Mr. Wright was 86 years old and in the final phase of his brilliant career as perhaps America's most celebrated and original architect. At the time, he was also at work on a dozen other residences and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and the Beth Shalom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. The Hagens were natives of Uniontown, Pennsylvania and owners of a large dairy serving southwestern Pennsylvania and friends of the Edgar Kauffman family, for whom Mr. Wright had designed and built Fallingwater nearby. The purchased the 80-acre parcel of land and asked Mr. Wright to create a deluxe Usonian house. The house was completed in three years, and the Hagens lived their for the next 30 years.

The house is constructed of native sandstone, red cyprus and glass around a west-facing courtyard. It has a copper roof estimated to cost $96,000. It has a hexagonal stone core rising to the hipped room from the intersection of the living room and bedroom wings. On the eastern side of the courtyard, the flat-roofed carport fuses with the stone of the Knob and anchors the house to the site in the distinct manner characteristic of Wright's organic approach. To the south, the house extends out from the hillside on 10" thick stone-faced concrete ramparts. Kentuck Knob plan is designed on a module system using an equilateral triangle measuring 4'-6" to a side creating a modified L-plan house with a 240 degree outside angle.

The house is oriented to the south and west to capture the best light throughout the year, a feature Mr. Wright frequently used when not limited by the coordinates of a city lot. Mr. Wright also did not select the crest of the Knob, which would have provided more commanding views. Instead, he chose a more challenging and less obvious site, nestled into the side of the knob. This allows the house and grounds to appear harmonious with the landscape rather than dominating it.

Sculpture garden

Mr. Wright was typically meticulous, demanding and even tyrannical about any changes to his design by or for his clients, and Wright enthusiasts often struggle with efforts to retain the purity of his original visions following his death. In the case of the Hagen house, this involved not only the design of the visitor centre, but also the addition of a sculpture meadow that was not part of the original plan. The Palumbos have added the meadow with more than 30 works by contemporary sculptors such as Sir Anthony Caro , Andy Goldsworthy, and Ray Smith, as well as a collection of found art pieces include a French pissoir, red English telephone boxes, and a vertically upright concrete slab from the Berlin Wall. The meadow is reached by a walking path through woods from either the house or the visitors center.

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Sophonisba Breckinridge

Workgroups: Sociology (& Social Work subgroup); Law; History

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (1866-1948) was a social reformer, social worker, educator, author, editor, public welfare and academic administrator. She was one of the early residents of Hull House, after it was opened to residents (aka social settlers) by the founders Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. She was born in Lexington KY, to a family noted for its commitment to public service. Her father was a lawyer, a confederate Colonel, a US Congressman, and a staunch supporter of women's education. Her great-grandfather was a US Senator and US Attorney General under President Thomas Jefferson. A graduate of Wellesley College in 1888, she became the first woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School and was the first woman admitted to the bar in Kentucky. Although she never practiced law, Ms. Breckinridge used her legal training to pursue a variety of reform interests, including abused and neglected children, child labor, poor families, development of public welfare administration and advancement of the social work profession.

Breckinridge received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1901, and the following year joined the faculty of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy (which later became the University of Chicago School of Social Work). She remained on the faculty there until 1942. Other notable faculty colleagues at the time were Edith Abbott, first dean of the School, her sister Grace Abbott, and Julia C. Lathrop, who were also residents of Hull House. Breckinridge served as Dean from 1908 to 1920. At various times, she also served as a Chicago city health inspector, a probation officer for the Chicago Juvenile Court, a member of the executive committee of the Consumers' League, a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and as secretary of the Immigrants' Protective League, the American Association of Social Workers (a predecessor to the present National Association of Social Workers, President of the Illinois Conference on Social Welfare, organizer and president of the American Association of Schools of Social Work.

Julia Lathrop and Grace Abbott both later moved to Washington, where they served as the first and second directors of the U.S. Children's Bureau and were instrumental in the design, passage and implementation of a major, but ill-fated piece of national social legislation. Breckinridge is believed to have met Jane Addams and adopted the cause of social work around 1905. This group of women social work faculty members (and Hull House residents) advocated a very different model of social work from the social casework approach of Mary Richmond and the American branch of the charity organization movement. As a group, they placed strong emphasis on understanding social problems, working with, rather than for, those in need, legislative advocacy and “wholesale reform”, and public welfare administration. The adoption of the Sheppard-Towner Act in 1921 was one of the major successes of their approach through the Children's Bureau, although they were unable to repeat their success when that law expired in 1929. Some provisions of the act, however, were later included in Title IV of the Social Security Act when that legislation was drafted under the leadership of Edwin E. Witte and with the involvement of Frances Perkins, Arthur J. Altmeyer, and others in 1935.

Breckinridge was the first co-managing editor, along with Edith Abbott of Social Service Review. A partial list of her publications is included on the Works page of this entry.

From 1907 to the mid-1920s, Dr. Breckinridge lived part of each year at Hull House.

Bibliography page: Additional information about Sophonisba Breckinridge can be found in Lela Costin. Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott (1983).

The following list are for articles that need to be written by someone:

List of Communitarians

(One of the things that unites nearly all communitarians is that they deny that's what they are! The label is attributed by others).

List of Neoconservatives

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Theater

Title Composer/Librettist Setting Main Characters Date
First Produced 		Date
Movie
Annie Get Your Gun Irving Berlin Annie Oakley, "Wild Bill" Cody 1946 1950
Aspects of Love Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 1948 1948
Cats Andrew Lloyd Webber 1900 1900
Evita Andrew Lloyd Webber Argentina 1900
Meet Me In St. Louis Irving Brecker/Fred Finklehoffe Worlds Fair of 1904 The Smith family 1944
My Fair Lady Edwardian London 1900
New York, New York 1900 1900
Oklahoma Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. Oklahoma Territory Curley McLain, Laurey Williams 1941 1955
Oliver
Pal Joey 1900
Private Lives Noël Coward London 1930
Phantom of the Opera Andrew Lloyd Webber Paris Opera, Paris Sewer 1941 1943
The Sound of Music Austria 1900 1900
South Pacific Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. WWII in Pacific 1949 1958
State Fair Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. Iowa State Fair The Frake family 1996 1945
West Side Story Leonard Bernstein 1900 1900
Wonderful Town NYC 1900 1900
Where’s Charley? 1900
The King and I Siam 1900
Guys and Dolls Broadway 1900
London Calling Noel Coward London Willy & George Craft 1923
Kiss Me Kate
A Chorus Line
Hair
No No Nanette
Jesus Christ, Superstar Tom Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber
Max and
Gypsy Steven Sondheim 1971
Rent
Les Miserables
No No Nanette
Porgy and Bess
Starlight Express
Follies
Billy Elliot
Funny Girl
On the Town
42nd Street
Auntie Mame
The Wiz
Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Charity


Max and

Grey Gardens


Old Timeline

Date Event
1642-1651 English Civil War: Scarborough sides with the Royalists
March 1643 Castle garrison led by Sir Hugh Cholmley; briefly loses the Castle to his cousin, Captain Browne Bushell
August 1644 Parliamentary forces reach Scarborough following Royalist defeat at Marston Moor and the fall of York; Cholmley stalls with surrender negotiations
18th February 1645 Capture of Scarborough's port; first siege of the Castle by Parliamentary forces begins
24th　March 1645 Sir John Meldrum, leader of the Parliamentary forces, badly injured in clifftop fall; allows Royalist surprise attack and delays siege by six weeks
1st May 1645 Parliamentarians' Committee of Both Kingdoms orders that the Castle be taken at all costs
10th　May 1645 Royalist counter-attack leads to Parlimentary retreat after three-day bombardment and collapse of the keep's west wall
11th May 1645 Heavy hand-to-hand fighting around the barbican; Parliamentarians take heavier casualties, Meldrum killed
25th July 1645 Castle garrison surrenders following five-month siege
27th July 1648 New castle garrison goes over to the Royalist side
19th December 1648 Second siege brings Castle back under Parliamentary control; later used as a prison

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