Py,

You're working too hard at it.? This sort of thing comes, but not often enough,?from listening to Beethoven.?Can't get better company than that, except maybe Mozart.



Ralph


Nestled in the trees outside Egypt where I am parked is a? small stone marker hidden in the weeds.
I can't really see it but it appears to be granite and carved in the shape of a plane with its stylized propeller being the uppermost pedestal about chin high.

I needed to stretch my legs and water the horse so? I parted company with the afternoons Beethoven (The 6th the? Pastoral) and walked over for a look-see not expecting much as it was well hidden and obviously forgotten.
I was surprised by what I found.
The monument; was solid and well carved in that 30's chunky mo-dern deco style;
and? it bears symbols of the army air corps and of the American air mail service; which was sort of the UPS of its day.
(Lindbergh for instance delivered the US air mail mail as a contractor)

It was carved by the WPA ; and it? was an honorarium to Eddy Stinson Jr? who was known as an early aviation pioneer and his company the Stinson aircraft company which must have been located here in the? cotton fields behind me.

I am? getting? the chills now and its not from Becky's burger; 
its a? small world so here is my connection.
My grandfather left Times Picayune and came up to New York to be an aviation reporter for the tabloids? back in the 30's and? knew this guy ;
( somewhere I have? pictures of the? two of them ) .
Why I pulled in here I know not 
Perhaps its? because I had to make a piss stop; perhaps? its because of Becky;,s
but somehow its full circle and I will try to? make sense of it that is? once I am delivered out? from? the lands of Egypt
. Py 







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