As an amusing addendum to this year’s recently-concluded Bard Music Festival: last week, I shared a photo of myself, standing before a life-size poster of Bohuslav Martinů outside the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. It was only later that I revisited the image and noticed something a little peculiar. If you look down at the bottom of the photo, on the concrete at the base of the poster gallery is a perfectly visible letter “F.”

This was on the first weekend of the festival. I determined to look for it when I returned for the second weekend, and can you believe it, THE “F” WAS STILL THERE! I picked it up and held it in my hand for a moment, considering whether or not I should have it mounted on a chain so that I could wear it around my neck gangsta-style. But the angel on my shoulder prevailed, and I turned it in at the Fisher Center Box Office.

I wonder how long it lay there unmolested? The photo at the bottom right was posted by someone else in May. Clearly, at that time, the “F” was still mounted in its rightful place.

What the “F?”

Fisher Center at Bard