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the names Jack, Phillip, Beatrice, and Lily are printed in black marker.
"They're the names of the children of the man who designed the wood interior, John Yarema," explains AADL director Josie Parker. As a child, Parker herself sometimes left similar legacies: "My father was a builder, and he sometimes let us put our names and handprints in wet concrete--though it was usually in places that were going to be covered up." ![]()
[Originally published in April, 2010.]