Tag Archives: James A. Michener

Michael Fay, a Marine combat artist, seems to have cleared out his Fire and Ice blog in favor of a real gallery show in Doylestown, PA. At the James A. Michener Art Museum, no less. Michener, of course, is buried here in Austin. Less well known is the fact that, many years ago, I rented part of an old mansion on the road between New Hope and Doylestown. Meanwhile, I’ve been planning for a while now to get out to the Austin cemetery where Michener is planted to talk to some of the nearby headstone people about getting my own slab ready. Already own the plot. Macabre? Not really. Be prepared, that’s the Boy Scout’s marching creed. I will find a snap of Michener’s stone and post it. I’m not talking about the state cemetery, where there’s a commemorative stone for him, which is just political PR, but Austin Memorial Park. His own chosen headstone is a trifle unusual, as you might expect of such a prolific character. Find A Grave has it, here.