Re: Happy Death-day CAS!
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casofile (IP Logged)
Date: 15 August, 2004 02:37PM
Roger-
Unfortunately the land is no longer vacant, having been sold to a developer a few years ago and, well, developed. The picture you saw must have been an older one. We suggested to Smith's estate that perhaps the city would purchase the property and develop it into a park, but for financial reasons this did not work out. The sale of the property is what precipitated the moving of the boulder beside which CAS' ashes were interred (no easy feat at an estimated 5,000 lbs!) and placing it along with the plaque in a city park near Old Town Auburn.
A park on the original Smith property would have been preferrable, but at least we were able to give CAS a lasting memorial in his hometown. CAS fans who live in Calif. should try and visit it sometime; Auburn is only half an hour's drive from Sacramento and Bicentennial park is less than a mile from Interstate 80.
-Ron