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Post-Pandemic535cross section of your work from not only the publications but other exhibitions that you have had.%u201d Needless to say, I was very pleased. It was an excellent museum, with an educational mission Lynn and I were really impressed with, and I was honored that so many of my photographs would be in their permanent collection. Several days after Shaun%u2019s laudatory email, Lynn and I headed to Richmond to pick up the stack that was now twenty-nine photographs shorter. While there, we had a pleasant visit with Shaun, and he gave us a personal tour of the museum%u2019s galleries.Before leaving Richmond, we drove through the grounds of Earlham College. We had never visited the campus before, and Lynn wanted to see the statue of her ninth Great Grandmother %u2014 Mary Dyer. Earlham is a Quaker school, and Mary is honored by the religion as one of four martyrs who were hanged by the Puritans in 1660. We had told Shaun we were going to check out the statue, and he said he was a Quaker, that he knew Mary%u2019s story very well, and he was familiar with the bronze statue. He was impressed that Lynn had such an important ancestor.On the drive over to Richmond, we had opted for a scenic route which took us through Columbus, Greensburg, Rushville, and Connersville (where we ate a Subway sandwich in an old cemetery we%u2019d shot some photographs in 20 years earlier). Along the way, I was on the lookout for some decrepit barns we%u2019d photographed in the past, but all of them were gone. For our return trip, we pulled onto the quicker Interstate 70 toward Indianapolis. We were definitely able to drive faster, but the semi traffic was very heavy, so after about a half-hour, we turned off to cover the rest of the way home on calmer, slower roads. I left the Interstate at State Road 109, and we soon entered Knightstown, where I asked Lynn if she remembered the Knightstown Academy. She didn%u2019t, even though we%u2019d stopped there once to take some photographs. In the past, her phenomenal memory would have recalled it clearly, but ever since she cracked her head when she fell into our pond, her memory hadn%u2019t been what it used to be. In the beginning, she didn%u2019t realize how much memory was gone, but now %u2014 two years later %u2014 we each noticed more missing