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May 19, 2022Liked by David B. Williams

Cool, always hear about nurse logs but not nurse buildings! The Italian travertine was a specialty of one of my professors at the University of Texas, Dr. Robert Folk. He could talk about it for hours!

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Steve, wow, that would have been fun to have him as a professor. He's in my travertine chapter quite a bit. Were you studying with him when he made the Martian meteor discovery/claim? David

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May 19, 2022Liked by David B. Williams

Unfortunately, as an undergraduate I did not appreciate it at the time. It was in the mid to late 70s (yeah, I am old!) and prior to his Mars meteor claim. Even back then, he did not usually teach undergraduate courses so I feel fortunate. He would take his grad students to Italy and it would have been a blast to have been there!

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May 19, 2022Liked by David B. Williams

And then there are "nurse cars and trucks." /Users/katherinedarrow/Pictures/Oh Happy Day/Truck garden.jpg /Users/katherinedarrow/Pictures/Jefferson Land Trust/QWC Stewardship/Trucks in QWC/best of/1946 Chevy.JPG

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Fun.

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Hi David, As always such a pleasure to read your writing! Keep up the good work. FYI, my mother-in-lay borrowed a little snip of ivy from the coliseum decades ago and it flourished and festooned her kitchen table.

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Kathy, thanks for your note and the story about the snipped ivy! David

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