Acknowledgements and Bibliography

Acknowledgments  

This project would not have been possible without the vital and valuable assistance of many individuals and organizations.  The following people have been instrumental in providing documentation, resources and oral histories surrounding Buckminster Fuller’s Old Man River Project:  

Dennis Cope  

Patrice Fisher  

James Fitzgibbon  

Chris Grubbs  

John Guenther  

Stephen Kerber  

Ben Lowder  

Carl Safe  

Tom Thomson  

Erin Vigneau-Dimick  

Bill Wischmeyer  

Buckminster Fuller Estate  

SIUE Museum  

Stanford University Archive   

This site was a group project for HIST 582 Practicum in Exhibition under the direction of Erin Vigneau-Dimick, Executive Curator of the SIUE Museum and instructor.  The graduate students enrolled in this course and in the development of the website are: Stephanie Cuvar, Cathy McNeese, and David Thompson.  All three of these students are pursuing the Museum Studies Post-Baccalaureate Certificate. 

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