Bucky Fuller in Black Mountain NC

BUCK THE SYSTEM: Inventor and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller “did not limit himself to one field but worked as a ‘comprehensive anticipatory design scientist’ to solve global problems surrounding housing, shelter, transportation, education, energy, ecological destruction and poverty,” according to the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

He’s pictured here, in his Black Mountain College classroom, in 1948. Photo by Hazel Larsen Archer, courtesy of the estate of Hazel Larsen Archer

Was he ever mentioned in my high school physics class? I doubt it.  I discovered him when I saw the first geodesic dome of my life at the Montreal Biosphere in 67.  There was one in New York at a fair also in the 60s.  Then my first visit to Disney World, I think they had just started Expo, with a huge dome.

Then I enjoyed reading Operating Manual for Space Ship Earth, and another of his difficult but insightful books, Critical Path.  Now there's even a Facebook group Buckminster Fuller Institute.

And now I live 2 miles from where Black Mountain College once was located, which is where the picture above was taken, (strangely enough 2 miles from the campus!)

Bucky (as he was called) didn't succeed in erecting the dome which he devised at that time using venetian blind slats, but the design was there.  Here's the link for the Black Mountain College Museum in Asheville, NC.

I've posted about a potter here on my blog, who also was on the faculty at Black Mountain College, M. C. Richards, Here 1 and HERE 2,
and HERE 3!

 I think these trees probably were here on Lake Eden Rd when the Black Mountain College was here.

 Part of the campus is now an active summer camp, Camp Rockmont for boys.

The newer buildings on the campus are for the camp.  But there's one building that remains that was part of the Black Mountain College.

The studies building (often the photo disappears, so I'll try a couple of versions of it.)

But before I leave today, I'll share two of my favorite domes...inspired of course by Bucky Fuller.

Interior of original (small) dome for Unitarian Fellowship of Tampa (when I attended in the 70s)

Exterior of small dome while larger one was being constructed in foreground in the 80s

Large dome with geodesic roof design for UU Church of Tampa FL.

And since there are so many pictures about Lake Eden, I'll continue them in another post!
There's a Music Festival held there twice each year! LEAF.

I share this post with Sepia Saturday this week...where there's an interesting crew sitting with 2 bottles and 3 pipes, and 4 very different hats...doing who knows what.  Maybe thinking about doing something that nobody else has done...

Today's quote: The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Buckminster Fuller