It had been a few months since we'd biked over to the Heidelberg Project, and on a recent balmy afternoon we headed over. This is one of the best places to bring kids. I can remember wandering around some ornate Renaissance cathedral many years ago, wanting to point out every cool detail that I saw to my (now) wife. Being a kid at the Heidelberg Project is like that times a thousand.


At one point I was talking about how one guy did all of it himself over twenty some years, and my daughter couldn't believe it. "Well, he might have had some help from some kids."

My daughter looked around at all the stuff and said, "Well they must have been some pretty rich kids. Look at all the toys they gave him!"

Knowing the truth, my heart broke a bit.

 

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The Heidelberg Project is sort of like a tourist attraction around here, mostly hipsters and Europeans, but it's a great place for kids too. I've been bringing them here regularly since we moved to Detroit, and now my son is old enough to really get into it. Tyree Guyton gets most of the attention for the project, but there's a guy who also lives there named Tim Burke who makes his own stuff there, and that's actually what my son prefers. I've talked with Burke and he's quite a character who's obviously battled some demons in his day. He welds some mean "robots" and collects a lot of interesting stuff out abandoned buildings (including a few hundred dental molds that he uses to give his robots mouths). The kid LOVES them. 

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