Ingenious : Edwin C. Krupp - Issue 11 : Light
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I’m in the business of small miracles,” said Ed Krupp, director of Griffith Observatory. “It’s a small miracle to turn visitors into observers, to put them eyeball to eyeball with the cosmos.” Few observatory directors have been performing small miracles as long as Krupp, 69, who this year is celebrating his 40th anniversary as director of the Los Angeles landmark. Seated in an administrative conference room in the observatory, perched atop Mount Hollywood, the metropolis sprawling outside his window, Krupp in conversation with Nautilus was ebullient, slightly sarcastic with a wonderful tendency to ramble. Central casting couldn’t find a better person to star in a movie about an eccentric and ingratiating astronomer than Krupp, who was wearing a pinstriped gray suit, pink shirt, and pink (...)