Franz the Artist

When I was very young, we went to the Scranton Museum of Art. There, I saw a woman standing in front of a painting, and she was actually crying. I don’t recall it being a sad painting. My mother leaned down to me and whispered, “See, the painting is so beautiful, it breaks her heart and makes her cry.”

This made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.

But then, I had not yet seen Franz Klingermann toss an elk.

Bears and Elk

The 75th elk toss is currently postponed due to bear sighting. We CAN NOT afford another "black bear at the beer keg" situation like we had in 1996: