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I explore the design of the Chrysalis and the work of Marc Fornes, its designer.

I discuss the various institutional activities related to implementation of the Inner Arbor plan

I explore the vision for a new park in Symphony Woods and the strategy to implement it

I recap the history of Symphony Woods and the various attempts over the years to develop it as a park.

In this series I explore the conception and construction of the Chrysalis amphitheater and Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods.

Merriweather Post Pavilion gets ready for the 21st century, and the Howard County Design Advisory Panel offers its advice.

With the 38th Annual Korean Festival happening tomorrow, it’s a good time to highlight Korean indie folk/pop singer-songwriter Fromm.

As construction of the Chrysalis amphitheater begins, I look again at the structure and its architect.

tl;dr: My blog is moving to civilityandtruth.com. Update your bookmarks and news readers! After a fair amount of fiddling about I’m renaming my personal blog and moving to a new domain. From now on you can access the blog at https://civilityandtruth.com (note the “https” rather than “http”). You can read more about the changes in my first post at the new blog. Briefly, I wanted to separate the blog from my personal domain frankhecker.com and have more control over the technology behind the blog, including eliminating the user tracking done by WordPress.com and providing better support for posts that include programming code and mathematical notation. ...

Update 2021/06/19: This post is now obsolete.