Make Connections

We met many interesting people on our trip to meet Vollis. We also found several interesting science and art connections along the way. Where would a trip like this take you?

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We were working with fourth graders, building wind-powered whirligigs.	We found Harrod Blank while looking for a whirligig art car. He drove through Vollis' place with his Camera Van.		Harrod told us about Suzanne Theiss at the Orange show who called Vollis' place "a staggering environment."
			Suzanne told us about Photographer Roger Manley and this book. Vollis is in it!
		We traveled to North Carolina and met Vollis. His windmills and whirligigs were "havin' a ball".

When we returned home we had a lot of ideas for Thinking Fountain. This story is an SLN inquiry science resource.	Vollis' wife Jean showed us an article written about Vollis' whirligig at the Visionary Art Museum.	Vollis gave us this whirligig to take home. We made a pop bottle version with the fourth graders.
Toward the end of our trip we read a newspaper article about the Kohlmeyers. They recently discovered a spitting fungus!			We found windmill activities in this Internet resource.
We drove to see the spitting fungus.