Summary
BETHLEHEM -- ArtsQuest President Jeff Parks admits he's not very sentimental and he's not easily impressed. Yet in 2002, as he stood three stories up on a brightly lit former steel mill in Duisburg, Germany, his jaw hung open in amazement as he realized just how wrong he had been.
"Oh, we've got to have one of these in Bethlehem," he said, awestruck, standing on a performance stage embedded in the 110-year- old former Thyssen steel mill.See the full content of this document
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Creator of Bethlehem's Steelstacks Found Inspiration in Germany
In that instant, for Parks, the former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces went from being rusted relics he thought should be demolished to becoming the centerpiece of the newest attraction he was planning for the barren Steel land.
In that instant, his vision for SteelStacks came rushing in.It wasn't the first time Parks says he was wrong. He was wrong when as a child he decided a law degree would lead him to his life's work. He was wrong again when he decided he had to leave his little town of Bethlehem for the big city to make his ma...See the full content of this document
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