On Sunday, Flo and I took a trip by ourselves down to Southern Indiana and visited a town named Columbus. I never expected what I found. This small town has, over the years, built up the most wonderful collection of architecture that I’ve seen. It seems that whenever they wanted to build a public building they went out and got one of the best architects in the world to build it. This inspired private companies, too, so a lot of the commercial buildings are equally wonderful. Kathy had suggested that we stop by, then go on to a state park. Instead, we got caught and used all of our time looking around Columbus. We only saw part of what they had to offer, and even then I missed getting parts of it on film because my camera ran out of power.

I think I’d like to spend a day or two there some time, and take enough time to see it all. There’s a wonderful park by the river, too, that shows signs of the same sort of care.

I am impressed by this town. It takes an extraordinary level of civic spirit and focus to create something like this. Some of the towns I’ve known in California would still be arguing about the buildings these people finished in 1967!