My last night in Kenmare another artist, Harlan Nelson, organized a dinner for me at the Pizza Hub. I was headed to Salt Lake the next day, so that afternoon I was at my main site making impressions. When I left my carving site for dinner it was hot and dry, when I returned after dinner, ping pong ball sized hail had punched holes in the 80# paper that was soaking in the coulee. A silo had blown across the road into a pond across the road. It was a good thing I went to town to eat, effectively driving around severe thunderstorm, because I would have been working unprotected outside intending to tough out the storm.
Before dinner:
After dinner:
Harlan’s friends, both the farmers and the people who lived “in town”, identified with the prints I brought to dinner. I was happy to introduce a cadre of residents to my work, and told people where to find the petroglyph. Lastly, I felt honored by the dinner and I appreciated Harlan organizing it.