Well, yesterday Dad saw the fulfillment of an event he had been planning since arriving in LA.

Anyway, here's the article for the Orange County Registar:

The start of something big

Anglican faithful from churches in Orange and Los Angeles counties gathered at Corona del Mar State Beach for a historical reenactment of

the cross planting at Cape Henry near Jamestown, Virginia, exactly 400 years ago on Sunday.

The cross planting, one of several events across the nation on Sunday commemorating the founding of the first permanent English settlement in America, was followed by a prayer service.

"This is a very instrumental, very important day," said Sarah Desborough of Fountain Valley. "If it wasn't for this landing, we wouldn't have the United States as it is today."

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RE-ENACTING THE PAST: Children help plant a cross at Corona del

Mar State Beach representing the 7-foot tall English Oak cross that the Jamestown, Virginia settlers brought with them in 1607.

Mindy Schauer, The Orange County Register

(Dad is on the left side of the cross in back)

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HANDS IN HISTORY: As part of a history lesson learned, children pat down sand at base of a cross they set up at Corona del Mar State Beach Sunday.