Discussion on Frank Lloyd Wright's controversial life choices

I disagree with them in a lot of cases. Yeah, like Manson's music. Fantastic. Just beautiful stuff. Really good stuff for sure. So Frank Lloyd Wright returns to Chicago in 1910. Meemaw stayed behind. She stayed there in Europe for another year because she was getting a divorce from Edwin Chaney. And so she stayed there wrapping that up. Frank moved back with Kitty. He had no intention of staying. And I think it was pretty clear to Kitty at this point because she said Mr. Wright, I wonder if he made her call her that. Mr. Wright reached here Saturday evening, October 8th, and he has brought many beautiful things. Everything but his heart, I guess, and that he has left in Germany, but he came back a bit of a pariah. Oh, just to tell you they were pariahs before. There was a woman who grew up living next door to Mamaw and her children. And she, years later in her diary, recounted a time when her mom refused to give Frank Lloyd write cream when he came over from next door to borrow some and said that they were sinners and she wasn't going to help them out at all. So when they left for Europe, made headline news for leaving their families. And then he returns, moves back in with his family just long enough to plan his next home for him and Mama. Like, yeah, the people in his social orbit did not take very kindly to that. Professionals, neighbors, friends, friends, gossip, colonists, basically everybody in the Midwest who had anything to do with anything. Like, we rejected him and Mama. Yeah. In to boot when he gets back, because he needed seed money for his new home, he had a benefactor named Darwin Martin. And he said, hey, listen, I want to build this great cottage and this affair is long over and this is going to be a cottage for my mom and. And I promise it's not going to be our little smash shack. And so give me $25,000 to get this project going. He got it. He moved into the home with his mistress. And I think by Christmas 1911, they were officially living together there in Greenspring. Yeah. He said, thanks, chump. Thanks for the money. And because just trashing Frank Lloyd Wright as a person is a lot of fun, I want to add this detail too. Darwin Barton.