© Mark Hertzberg (2025)

I had the pleasure of spending time with Minerva Montooth, Taliesin’s Legacy Fellow, this afternoon. When she reached for her phone to take my picture, as she always does during our visits, I asked if I could take a “selfie” of us:

Then I took these portraits of her with my “real camera” as I left:

This is a link to my September 2021 profile of Minerva, with the story of how she and Charles met, and of her years at Taliesin:

https://wrightinracine.net/2021/09/29/the-marvelous-minerva-montooth/

This is a link to my photos of Minerva’s 100th birthday celebration in 2024:

https://wrightinracine.net/2024/02/27/minervas-100th-birthday-bash/

Link to Wisconsin PBS show about Taliesin, with segment about Minerva:

https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/wisconsin-life/frank-lloyd-wrights-taliesin-2ub05i/

Cindy and I love and miss you. We look forward to our next visit with you!

Please scroll down for previous posts on this website, including yesterday’s about the Golden Light at the Unitarian Meeting House in Madison.