As These Photographs show, our New Science Building was designed to be pleasant, functional AND energy efficient. The architects were instructed to be sensitive to cost effective opportunities for natural lighting, natural ventilation, solar heat (and cooling) so as to reduce long-term operating costs and consumption of energy. Such a design could thus be a constant, living educational experience for our students as to how best to design functional/economical buildings that have low operating costs.

The architects also were instructed to be sensitive to cost effective opportunities for learning and display devices during the building design process. The Sci Building Committee stated: "esthetics monies" should be used to create a building that is attention getting as well as an "active learning device. The grounds, entrance way, halls, even the building, pipes, beams, machinery and construction materials should be educational experiences that invite involvement in science and stimulate more and higher quality science learning for students and the public. The USC Aiken new science building was completed 5 September 1989.

Included in This Album is a photographic tour of the Biology Department Solar Heated Green House. Don't miss this fantastic collection of exotic and colorful plants!!

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Each photograph In These Four Albums, Was Taken Along The Route Of The Book Zen And Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, And Was Especially Sought To Show The Specific Travel Passage Of ZMM, Shown Below That Photo.
….These albums are Practically a Photo-Book for Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. By viewing these photos you will re-live what the Narrator and Chris saw as they traveled those highways so well described in ZMM. They started their trip in Minneapolis, on a Monday soon after 4th of July 1968, and reached San Francisco 17 days later. In words and photographic views, you will relive this fantastic trip!! No ZMM travel passage has been left out.
Explanation: As a research project in Summer 2002, I traveled these same roads and attempted to find (and photograph) the actual physical places described on each page, by the Narrator. My own "ZMM Trip" started at the University of Chicago 9 June 2002. I arrived in Minneapolis late on the same day. I arrived at the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge mid afternoon 8 July 2002, 30 days later. I took a total of 1901 photographs, and on follow-up research trip, Summer 2007, I took an additional ~800 photos. Of these ~915 photos have been selected to be shown in these four albums herein. After you click on the photo (at right) to enter this album, you will see four sub-albums which have my photos for respectively Parts I, II, III, & IV of ZMM. You may click to enter these in any order. (Since ZMM has 373 pages, my photos average to well over two pictures per page of the book!)
SPECIAL NOTE: . Why Is Robert Pirsig’s ZMM, So VERY VERY VERY Factually Accurate? ….Henry S Gurr’s Talk To “The Very First MOQ Conference". Click Here.
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USEFUL LINKS:

..….(A). Please Contact Me =>To Contribute Information, Ideas, Stories, Photos, etc OR If You Need More Information, Or Want To Ask Questions. …. My Henry S Gurr University Home Page (Professor of Physics), Has My Full Contact Information. Click Here.
……(B) Read About Robert Pirsig in Wikipedia. Click Here.
…..(C) A Special ZMMQ Photo Gallery Viewing Guide => To Help Guide Persons To Easiest Ways Access Our ZMMQ Gallery Photos.
…..(D) Henry S Gurr’s 2019 Photos Showing (In Part), Changes That Have Taken Place Along “The ZMM Route”. AFTER This Page Comes Up => The TOP TWO Albums, Show .Additional “ZMM Route”, Information BEYOND Henry Gurr’s Summer 2002 Photos. Click Here.

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I share Pirsig’s preference for the back roads. Gestation of my plan was long, after the initial climactic inspiration to trace Pirsig’s original cathartic ride into history. My goal was to attempt to recreate for myself a comparable Zen experience, but I had no desire to mirror the entire trip. I knew I couldn’t. (My hat is off to my fellow countryman, Mark Richardson though.) However, on a motorcycle any road can potentially envelope us in a Zen retreat. Tracing the Pirsig trail from Minneapolis to Yellowstone would be a significant part of my Zen Summer plan.

It all began with my own son’s tortured reading of "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance." He mentioned it to me when his reading had stalled, like so many others I know (even my brother, the Philosophy major). Some have said it is turgid, quite tangled and painful to read. My son was well into the trip narrative, where it increasingly yields to the Phaedrus/Philosophy dissertation. I confided that I too had never really consumed the whole text in my original reading of the book.

Mike had facilitated my return to motorcycling twelve years earlier and now his query kick-started me into a renewed ascent of this revered motorcycle tome. Reading it again stirred my youthful memories of motorcycling. It inspired me to uncover the Pirsig trail and I plotted the route from the locations in the text (I was unaware that many pilgrims had also done).

Since my first attempt to understand ZMM, my experience had deepened and I was better equipped to appreciate the tale. Like Pirsig, I have supped at the table of academe. The cocktails of arrogance and guile nearly eroded my native curiosity and enthusiasm. I survived.

The Road Star, ELEETia 2, in this story was the fourth mount of my second motorcycle life. It survived the journey, requiring little maintenance. Soon after though, she was destroyed in an accident that nearly took her pilot. Her spirit lives on in ELEETia 3.

…Back in 1959-61, when Robert Pirsig Taught English at Montana State University, he became good friends with fellow MSU Faculty & Abstract Art Teacher Robert DeWeese and his wife Gennie.
… Click here for Photo of Robert & Gennie DeWeese, in their art studio at their Cottonwood Canyon home in the 1980’s.
…This was the time of Mr. Pirsig’s early development of his ''Metaphysics Of Quality'' (MoQ), as it was eventually named and fully explained in his book Robert Pirsig ’s Book ''Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'' ' (ZMM).
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Nearly ALL Of ZMM’s Chapter 14 Is Devoted To Events That Took Place When ZMM Book Author Robert Pirsig Comes Back To Visit The DeWeeses (July 1968). With their encouragement Pirsig expands on his MoQ, which eventually become formative parts of the finished ZMM.
Thus It Was, In 1974, With This ZMM Chapter 14 Published AND Suddenly Appeared On Bookstore Shelves, Thus: …
….. The World Suddenly Becomes Aware Of The DeWeeses!

SO … THIS ALBUM IS HEREBY DEVOTED TO PHOTOS & INFORMATION ABOUT ROBERT & GENNIE DEWEESE.
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.… A) The Beginning Of This Album shows 26 Color Photos, which are Scanned Pages From The Complete Paper CATALOGUE For => “The Art Museum Of Missoula’s 1996 “Gennie DeWeese Retrospective” Art Show.”
….Gennie DeWeese is one of a handful of modernist painters who brought the modern movement in art to Montana Her generation of art pioneers included her husband, painter Robert DeWeese, painter printmaker Helen McAuslan, painter-sculptor Bill Stockton, painter-printmaker Jessie Wilber, ceramic sculptor Rudy Autio and Peter Voulkos (bot students of her husband), and many more.
…Each of these 26 CATALOGUE pages show Color Photos of Gennie DeWeese’s Art: In addition there are long descriptions of
…1) The Works Of Gennie DeWeese By Julie Godell.
…2) Of visiting with Gennie In her home, and at a Video Filming Session by Terry Karson.
…3) A FULL Bibliography Of Gennie’s Life & Works, up through 1996, the date of the Missoula Art Museum Show.
… Right Click & New Tab For A FULL Explanation of Just Who Were Robert (Bob) DeWeese & Genevieve (Gennie) DeWeese. NOTE: This “Who DeWeese” Page will have some duplication, of what you see in this album.
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… B) The Last 6 Color Photos Part Of This Album, happened to be placed in this album => Because it provides a convenient “Internet Access Parking Spot”. But also these 8 Color Photos, for the viewer interested in Robert & Gennie DeWeese, do also provide a nice viewing & learning experience.
…… 1) The First 4 Of These 6 Color Photos were supplied by Tina DeWeese, and show scenes of a Special Art Exhibition => Featuring Works By Robert DeWeese, Gennie DeWeese & Paul Harris," at the Marguerite Kirk & Paul Harris Gallery in Belgrade, MT. Oct 17 Thru Dec 19, 2022.
…… 2) The Last 2 Of These 6 Color Photos were also supplied by Tina DeWeese, and show Photograph of Robert (Bob) DeWeese Holding His Framed Composite Artwork, And Then A Closer View Photo of His Colorful “Gangster Tie”

VIEWING NOTE:
… In ANY of these Gallery Photos, Click Photo several times to get the largest view. This is important for most of these Gallery Photos, because you need the largest view to see details or read small text, even with magnifying glass. Some of the photos are really HUGE, so you especially need to click to get largest view!


GENERAL VIEWING HINTS FOR THE PHOTO ALBUM YOU WILL BE LOOKING AT AFTER YOU CLICK ON TITLE LINE ABOVE:
….A) Click on any photo several times to get the largest view, and possibly use a Magnifying Glass.:
….B) Most photos, especially the Panoramas will expand to VERY large, and you will have to learn to use the Mouse Drag Sliders (at bottom & right side), to move the image, to see it all. Because the expanded panoramas are so large, you should read the caption first, on the smaller view.).
….C) Suggestion1: -- You Might Get Out Your Paper United States Road Atlas
.....D) Suggestion2: – DON’T READ -- JUST SLOWLY SCROLL THRU PHOTOS.
….E) Suggestion3 .. …. Right Click, Then Choose New Tab, Then Read => A Special ZMMQ Photo Gallery Viewing Guide To Help Guide Persons To Easiest Way Access Our ZMMQ Gallery Photos.


For This Album, Computer Work Documents are saved 220228, in Henry Gurr’s System 5268 …See bottom of MSW Document File = WikiZmmq}HSG}WhoWereDeWeesesRP...Hsg15+MarriedFx2+GangsterFx5.docx ********************************