Good question. The woman in question is Joan Fox — you remember, she used to write restaurant reviews in Cincinnati Magazine — who lives half the year here, half in Truro, Mass.

        The arts center, says Cincinnati writer Stephen Birmingham, freshly home from visiting, is Castle Hill. “It's like all arts centers in that everyone volunteers because they have no money. Well, in May, an anonymous donor offered $250,000 on the condition they name the new building after Joan. I understand some of the locals were up in arms.”

        But not many, Fox says, because there aren't that many. “This is seasonal. Most everyone lives somewhere else. Our whole board is New York, Boston and Cincinnati.

        “It's really a marvelous arts center. We have 600 students learning print making, photography, writing, all fields. The thing is, we get a wonderfully prestigious faculty because of all the New Yorkers vacationing here.

        “The year I was president, we had Saul Bellow and Sebastian Junger here.

        “Can you believe they're going to name the building after me. I'm not even dead yet.

        “I have an idea who the donor is, but he won't say, and that's OK. I don't want to know.”

        Hiking: As long as we're solving mysteries here, mayhaps you were wondering as well about the couple running up and down steps of Nippert Stadium in full business dress and hiking boots?

        Turns out it's Chris Curran, UC adjunct biology prof and public relations staffer, and photographer Colleen Kelley.

        Seems they're leading a group of geology students in Alaska through Aug. 27, hanging around a dozen or so glaciers doing climate-change studies.

        Anyway, to get in shape for the steep slopes, Curran and Kelley spent a month or so of lunch hours hiking the steps at Nippert Stadium in big hiking boots. And business suits. In 90-degree weather, no less.

        So did it work? Are they in shape? “I'll find out the 11th,” Curran said before they left. “The second day is the most grueling day of the trip, and we won't even be recovered from jet leg.”

        Hats off: Just guessing here, but we're pretty sure that if Gus Miller had a grave, he'd be turning in it.

        Miller, recall, owns Batsake's Hats and is a good buddy of Luciano Pavarotti. And a fan: Pavarotti music plays on the shop's sound system all the time.

        But not now. Miller is vacationing in Greece and left wife Rita in charge. All was well till last week, when singer James Taylor walked in wearing a ratty T-shirt and jeans.

        “I've been in love with you since the sixth grade,” she told him. Then gave him a few hats and told a friend, “Gus isn't the only one who knows the stars.”

        Then she marched to the CD player, pulled Pavarotti — “I stuck him in a drawer” — and installed Taylor.

        “I told him, I'm in love with you. I mean in love. He got me through the '70s.”

        E-mail knipenquirer@yahoo.com. Past columns at Enquirer.com/columns/knip

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