The formal cocktail reception at Taliesin was that late afternoon and evening. We had the run of the great house while we had fine wines and cocktails with hors d'oeuvre. Soon after, the main banquet was held in the large tent attached to the rear of the drafting room. We had fine food and fine wines, and then, after, we were entertained by the chorus, poetry readings, and by the violin music of John Amarantides, and ex-apprentice who lives in Greece.

Most of us left Taliesin at noon to drive into Madison and attend the elegant catered reception put on by Ann Bayer Mears, the present owner of the old Gilmore House, sometimes known as "Airplane House", designed by Frank Lloyd Wright not long after the turn of the last century. It features low ceilings, spreading hipped roofs and extended Wings. After having elegant foods, wines and talk, we left to go our separate ways. A few days of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, with its Organic Architecture, has probably given each of us some relief from the ugly, mundane look of most of America's architecture, and has given us a renewal in our faith in the redeeming qualities of real beauty.