DESCRIPTION:
Hope You Make It To The Mountains is track 21 on Roam Home To A Dome: A Benefit Compilation Recorded In Bucky's Dome.

Randy Crouch - lyrics, music, violin, vocals.
Vince Herman - mandolin, violin.
Dean Thiebaud - guitar.
Mike Havlis - bass.
Steve Byrd - drums.
The Bucky's Dome Singers: Erin Kruft, George Kruft, Traci Antonovich, Kathy Livingston, and Stephen Gariepy - vocals.

In 1967 Buckminster Fuller (once again) mesmerized the world with his design of the United States Pavilion in Montreal, Canada for Expo 67. "This 250 foot diameter diaphanous, silvery sphere caught the imagination of all who visited Expo and became the symbolic icon of all subsequent world's fairs and visionary urban construction. Every Expo after 1967 had its spherical exhibition structure; every city of the future had its spherical building prominently positioned in its urban fabric."* At the time, THE city of the future wasn't a city at all, in fact, it was a small unassuming college town smack dab in the heart of middle America, Carbondale, Illinois. Gently rolling and leafy green Carbondale is home to Southern Illinois University and sits at the edge of the beautiful Shawnee National Forest. It was from here Mr. Fuller manned the helm of Spaceship Earth for eleven of the most productive years of his earthtime.

Buckminster Fuller and his wife Anne moved to Carbondale in 1959 when Bucky received an appointment to Southern Illinois University. In April of 1960, Bucky and Anne worked with local contractor, Ira Parrish, to have a small geodesic dome built on the corner of Cherry Street and Forest Avenue. The home is special in that it was one of the first geodesic domes built for human habitation, and the only one Mr. Fuller (the patent holder for the geodesic dome) ever lived in.

H.F.W. "Bill" Perk, a friend and colleague of Fuller's, bought the home in 1999. In September of 2002, Mr. Perk donated the Fuller Dome Home to RBF Dome NFP. Since then, RBF Dome has worked to have the dome and property recognized as a Carbondale Historic Landmark. The City of Carbondale has been very supportive of their efforts and has passed an ordinance allowing the formation of a Home Museum to increase awareness of Mr. Fuller's ideas and principles.

Thanks to:
Bucky, the Artists/Contributors, Mike Lescelius, the RBF Dome NFP Board, Cornelius Crane, Kathy Livingston, Paul Matalonis, Bill Perk, Mary O'Hara, Tom Redmond, J. Reeves, Cathy Creed, Nathan Krummel, Heather Smith, Byron Livingston, Phil Beck, Silkworm Inc., Bill Lancaster, Larry Millard/Earth CD's, WDBX Community Radio, Carbondale Community Arts, Jack Weiss/Society of Typographic Arts, Country Joe McDonald, Jim Page, Aaron Champion, Mr. Mike's Music, Square Leaf Designs, Harbaugh's Cafe, Cristaudo's Cafe and Bakery, Longbranch Coffeehouse, and Camp Festus.

Credits:
This project was GrassRoots produced by many talented people who said YES!
Recorded in Bucky's Dome at 407 South Forrest Street in Carbondale, Illinois. Courtesy RBF Dome NFP.
Recorded & Mixed by : Mike Lescelius/ Misunderstudio, Murphysboro, IL.
Mastered by: Mike Lescelius.
Art Direction & Concept: Stephen Gariepy.
Hospitality, Funding, and Spatial Relations: Cornelius Crane.
Preservation Effort, Hospitality, and Access provided by: RBF Dome NFP Board.
CD Design/Layout: Nathan Krummel.
Limited Edition Design/Layout: Heather Smith, Nathan Krummel, & Stephen Gariepy.
Photos: Cornelius Crane, Mike Lescelius, Stephen Gariepy, Don Moore, Rip Stokes/SIU Photocommunications, Keith Cotton, Society of Typographic Arts, Mary O'Hara.
Supported in part by granted funding from Carbondale Community Arts.

For more detailed information on Bucky's Dome and this recording project including artist photos and information, visit the RBF Dome NFP online at www.buckysdome.org.

*Shoji Sado from R. Buckminster Fuller, Anthology for the New Millennium. Thomas Zung. St. Martin's Press, New York.

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