It drew matter to it. Fields, diggings, meadows, asphalt all ebbed and flowed around it, first north, then west. The building that is now the Art Museum was built in 1903 (the centenary of President Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase), and served as a major reception hall for the 1904 World’s Fair, attended by President Roosevelt and future leaders Taft and Wilson. (Half a century later came the Planetarium, joined in time to the Science Center. In due course the Park thus played host to dinosaurs, presidents and starbursts.)
Scott’s distant, archival life continued to sway, like a massive, ornate but barely submerged cathedral, beneath the sparkling waves of his new life with Gavin. Choosing the Park as the setting for their fiesta (Gavin gave him free reign) filled Scott with some proprieta
