Tag Archives: Austin TX

Profile Response: Gail Vittori, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Austin, Texas

Posted on April 7, 2016 by paulefallon

  “I came to an open house here two weeks after I moved to Austin. I was so impressed, I took Pliny’s course in architecture at UT.” Gail Vittori was a Massachusetts transplant and fresh undergraduate with a degree in … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Pliny Fisk, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Austin, Texas

Posted on April 6, 2016 by paulefallon

Pliny Fisk is an architect and visionary who began the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS) on a rise northeast of Austin forty years ago. The term ‘maximum potential’ refers to a hypothetically perfect state beyond our present, where … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Patrice Peach, Austin, TX

Posted on April 4, 2016 by paulefallon

When I arrived at JuiceLand on Barton Springs Road, Patrice Peach had already arrived ordered me ‘The Originator’, JuiceLand’s singular concoction of fresh apple juice, banana, blueberry, cherry, peanut butter, brown rice protein, flax oil, and spirulina. The middle-aged woman, … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Tanya Hall, Greenleaf Book Group, Austin, TX

Posted on March 31, 2016 by paulefallon

Tanya Hall worked in television in Los Angeles and flipped a few houses up the property ladder, but she wanted to find a tighter community for her two daughters to grow up. After visiting friends in the Hill Country, Tanya … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Cynthia Beeman and Friends, Austin, TX

Posted on March 30, 2016 by paulefallon

Cynthia Beeman values the past. Her home is filled with antiques, each of which has a familial story. She studied history at Texas Tech and spent her career at the Texas Historical Commission. After retirement, Cynthia co-founded the Ruth Winegarten … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Alan Graham, Community First, Austin, TX

Posted on March 29, 2016 by paulefallon

“The problem of homelessness is not Obama’s, it’s ours.” For 18 years, Alan Graham’s ministry, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, has provided food, clothing, health products, and social activities to Austin’s homeless. “The old model of service was based on scarcity. … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: Austin Kessler, Austin, TX

Posted on March 28, 2016 by paulefallon

I will never forget the first time I met Austin Kessler. He was eating an apple in the cafeteria at University High School cafeteria in Norman, Oklahoma in 1971. He took a few big bites, crunching through the skin. But … Continue reading →

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Profile Response: David Lanham, Austin, TX

Posted on March 25, 2016 by paulefallon

Sometimes I have the uncanny good fortune to land in a city and discover my host is a perfect reflection of the place I’m visiting. In his initial e-mail to me, David Lanham said, “Austin is the living embodiment of … Continue reading →

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Trip Log – Day 228 – Austin, TX to Rockdale, TX

Posted on February 13, 2016 by paulefallon

February 11, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 73 Miles to Date: 11,644 States to Date: 28 I pedaled out of Austin early to meet Gail Vittori and Pliny Fiske of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, an … Continue reading →

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Trip Log – Day 227 – Austin, TX

Posted on February 12, 2016 by paulefallon

February 10, 2016 – Sunny, 80 degrees Miles Today: 15 Miles to Date: 11,571 States to Date: 28 Austin is a city where Prius drivers cut off bicyclists. Austin is a city where the Hispanics are getting shoved off Cesar … Continue reading →

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