Menomonie, Wisconsin

Voices from the Land of the Living ~ Third Person Singular Subjective Case:  "She Was The Sunshine On Our Shoulders and The Wind Beneath Our Wings." Evergreen Cemetery. [2012]

Grand Forks, North Dakota

History of Aeronautics ~ Chapter 5:  Everything points heaven-ward: the granite marker, the streamlined jet, and, of course, the departed soul. There's going to be no crash landing here. And, in this position, the airplane becomes a cross, an empty cross: no human pilot needed. Memorial Park. [2012]

Lyndon Center, Vermont

History of Aeronautics ~ Chapter 3:  Aerodynamic principles were successfully applied to air transport in 1903, only three decades before these two were born. When they were children, the era of commercial passenger-carrying airplanes began, and the era of commercial passenger carrying airships ended in its infancy with the Hindenburg disaster. The two competing technologies are portrayed on the headstone here. [2009]

Greeley, Colorado

History of Aeronautics ~ Chapter 2:  Early hot-air balloons were nothing more than kites carrying lanterns. But in the late 1700s, during an era when all good things came from France, the Montgolfier brothers sent the first human beings into the air in defiance of gravity. A ceiling on human occupance of the earth had been broken and imaginations soared. What would you like for your ascent into heaven? A hot air balloon, perhaps? Linn Grove Cemetery. [2013]

Lacey, New Jersey

History of Aeronautics ~ Chapter 1:  The age of aeronautics began with the kite more than 2000 years ago in China. The conquest of the heavens had begun. Kites have always lifted our spirits wherever we have flown them, but here's a boy who thought the beach was best. Then, one day, his buddies watched as his spirit was lifted beyond the clouds to become a part of the heavenly domain that he once had challenged from the shore. Good Luck Cemetery. [2015]