RPI Cheer worthy!
It has been a while since I have gotten a Chrinitoid comment. Glad to see they are still coming! That sculpture was the iconic symbol of RPI when I was there in the mid-70’s. Nice to know where it ended up. This calls for the RPI cheer! E to...
Chrini-twin
One of my fraternity brothers pointed me to an article in the Wall Street Journal about a sculpture farm in New Zealand that appears to have a Chrinitoid. While very similar, the Alan Gibbs version is Variant “V” while the Chrinitoid is Variant “III”. Still, I will need to...
Storm King visit
During Spring Break this year, my eldest son (10) mentioned that his art teacher was talking up a place called Storm King and that he would like to check it out. Since I was familiar with Storm King thanks to my many trips up the New York State Thruway…and...
Memories from Tadd Torborg
I love that I still get emails from people about the Chrinitoid! Here is a note that arrived this morning: This is a screen capture from maps.google.com in the location you identified on your web page http://www.paynecentral.com/tompayne/chrin/ I missed this sculpture so very much. Thanks for doing the research! I was...
A recent email from Julia Gavin
Thank you for finding out what happened to that amazing sculpture. I was a student at Russell Sage in the late 70s & I would often go and watch it sail and listen to it creak…it was a very meditative experience, & one that I think of frequently, even...
Arne visits the Chrinitoid
Hi Tom,I read your 2004 article in the Rensselaer Alumni magazine and have perused your website on the subject. You said to snap a picture and send it your way if anyone was in the neighborhood. Consider it done! My observations: It seemed to me that the welded seams...
Vin Ree writes…
Hi Tom. I am Vin Ree, BS Physics, RPI Class of 1985. Yeah, it was sad that The Chrinitoid has disappeared and I am very happy to have discovered that you hunted it down and created your In Search of The Chrinitoid site. I haven’t checked but maybe you...
Updated Street View
Check out this new view….thanks to David Liebtag...
Potential backstory?
I received a note from Paul Fabiano who indicated he worked in the Rickey Workshop from 80-54 while a student at Clarkson. (He notes they beat RPI at Hockey during that time). He goes on to tell me that he was part of the team that helped remove the...
New Streetviews
Tom Cooper wrote me recently to point out that Google Maps have updated their streetview You probably know that there are some better views now on Google maps. Here’s a screen shot of the Chrinitoid from the Street-view on Google. I have run into quite a few Rickey sculptures since...