Here are some images of the day of the iron pour and the following day. Several people took images and I believe some video of the pour itself. I will try to get those images on-line later today or tomorrow. We worked straight through from breakfast at 8 am until 2:30 am Friday morning. The cupolas were started at 8 pm and we dropped the bottom on the big cupola at 2:30 am. We don't have a total for the amt. of iron that was melted but it was close to 6000lbs. We only lost one well of iron when a bott gave way under the pressure of a full well and about 200 lbs. of iron spilled onto the ground in front of the small cupola. Fortunately no one was standing at the tap hole at that moment so no one was hurt. There were no injuries except for a few small ember burns and Colton's scratched cornea, which the Dr. proclaimed was minor. Although we could have had a larger crowd of on-lookers, those that were here seemed to be very interested and enthusiastic. Certainly Ilkka Taipale, the Director of the Baltic Sea Center, was well pleased with the event and eager to get the resulting sculptures installed on the grounds of the adjacent hospital. More about those aspects of the symposium will follow. At this point students are busy cleaning up the site, working on their castings and catching up on much needed rest. Several have plans to take the bus in to Heksinki to attend a music festival near the main train station. We will be here two more days and then we are off to Riga and then the Sculpture Park at Pedvale.

Carl