The Great Falls of Paterson, NJ (home of Lou Costello)

fluxfactory.org OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS Flux Factory calls upon artists to take part in a project exploring the multifaceted landscape of Paterson, New Jersey. A team that includes designers, architects, and urban planners will initiate a dialogue between the historical, physiological, and physical aspects of this city as well as the people who live and work there. During a six-week period open meetings with the public will be held, asking questions and finding answers to, in a larger sense, a monument’s function within a city and the effects that resonate from its creation. The goal is to design and then build a monument to Paterson, in Paterson. info@fluxfactory.org Submission deadline is December 15th, 2006. Paterson, NJ was in part designed by the architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant who designed much of the US Capital, Washington, D.C., and later by Sam Colt, inventor of the revolver, of the Colt gun manufacturing company in the 19th century I read. Colt's influence has just been recently uncovered it was printed. Conrad "Pop" Link lived across the street from me at home till he was 101 years old. For forty years he worked in a spring factory in Paterson, NJ then came time for a union vote, a raise or pension, and all the young guys voted for a raise, he said. He was mad that President Reagan used the Social Security lists to mail him a birthday card, because he hadn't voted for him, getting the card about the same time President Reagan was shot in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, perhaps part of that rich Colorado oil family's kid, (he may have been there to dine with Neil Bush that night.) Still recall the forensic microscope revelation, "wait a second this bullet was supposed to explode!"