Bizarre experience today. I spent an hour or more on the University of Washington campus, walking our dogs through a drizzle, noticing lots of things to photograph, and listening to an audiobook of The Great Gatsby. On this listen, I caught a bit of dialogue that I’d missed before. The father of the murdered Gatsby says, “If he’d of lived, he’d of been a great man. A man like James J. Hill. He’d of helped build up the country.” Who, I wondered, was this James J. Hill? Then, no more than 10 minutes later, I spotted a statue, sized it up for its photographic potential, found it wanting. Ready to walk away, I noticed the statue’s nameplate read “JAMES J. HILL” (see snapshot above). Crazy. So who was he anyway? Here’s a start .., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jerome_Hill My other Gatsby posts are here. Click for high-res photo

Bizarre experience today. I spent an hour or more on the University of Washington campus, walking our dogs through a drizzle, noticing lots of things to photograph, and listening to an audiobook of The Great Gatsby.

On this listen, I caught a bit of dialogue that I’d missed before. The father of the murdered Gatsby says, “If he’d of lived, he’d of been a great man. A man like James J. Hill. He’d of helped build up the country.”

Who, I wondered, was this James J. Hill? Then, no more than 10 minutes later, I spotted a statue, sized it up for its photographic potential, found it wanting. Ready to walk away, I noticed the statue’s nameplate read “JAMES J. HILL” (see snapshot above).

Crazy.

So who was he anyway? Here’s a start ..,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jerome_Hill

My other Gatsby posts are here.

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