Stone cairns are some of the oldest memorial markers in the world. In some cultures they were made to represent human figures. In these and other mountains, they commonly serve as directional makkers for wilderness travelers. The cairns winding through this grove were created with all those purposes in mind, their strong vertical forms harmonizing with the surrounding forest, the stones echoing the mountains and the great rock towering at the end of the valley. The cairns represent and memorialize all those who have come and gone as well as all those who will come and go, the directions of their lives unutterably altered by their journeys through this campus.
"When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am in who you are." Frederick Buechner
Dedicated May 28, 2011
Krone Museum