Heard last night on the formerly-Art-BELL Coast to Coast. Writer Patricia CORNWELL (a Jack-the-Ripper i.d.-er?) sounded sincerely shocked at Franklin's planned memorial library, which appears to be a fundraising deal with a "talking cow"---the whole thing supposedly to evoke the Billy's humble origins on a dairy farm. She said she thinks GRAHAM deserves something on the scale and gravitas of a Presidential Library and DISPUTES that Ruth is NOT (as Franklin's side alleges) mentally capable for decision-making.
The Google search associated links with the SCHIAVO case---which emphasizes what we can ALL get behind: SELF-choice in pre-need decisions.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16177634/A family at cross-purposes
Billy Graham's sons argue over a final resting place
.... But at this moment everyone's attention is on the visitor, crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, who is talking about a memorial "library" that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, headed by Franklin, is building in Charlotte. Cornwell toured the building site and saw the proposed burial plot. She was asked by Ned, who opposes Franklin's choice, to come and give his father her impression.
"I was horrified by what I saw," she tells Billy, in the presence of a reporter invited to be there.
The building, designed in part by consultants who used to work for the Walt Disney Co., is not a library, she says, but a large barn and silo -- a reminder of Billy Graham's early childhood on a dairy farm near Charlotte. Once it's completed in the spring, visitors will pass through a 40-foot-high glass entry cut in the shape of a cross and be
greeted by a mechanical talking cow. They will follow a path of straw through rooms full of multimedia exhibits. At the end of the tour, they will be pointed toward a stone walk, also in the shape of a cross, that leads to a garden where the bodies of Billy and Ruth Graham could lie.
Throughout the tour, there will be
several opportunities for people to put their names on a mailing list.
"The whole purpose of this evangelistic experience is
fundraising," Cornwell says to Billy Graham. "I know who you are and you are not that place. It's a mockery. People are going to laugh. Please don't be buried there." ....
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Billy_Graham_Burial.htmlGraham family at odds over burial site
.... The $25 million, 40,000-square-foot Graham museum is designed to look like a dairy barn that might have existed on the farm where Billy Graham grew up outside Charlotte. It is scheduled to open in the spring. ....
http://www.topix.net/content/kri/3907571392138223878324666951184016676976Graham Burial Disagreement: Feud escalates with siblings' statements
The Charlotte Observer
December 13, 2006
.... But Graham did say he was 'disappointed ... (that) my brother (Ned) and a novelist (Patricia Cornwell, a Graham family friend) expressed their negative opinions about the nearly completed' library in Charlotte. He defended decisions to build the library and focus it on Billy Graham's 'humble beginnings' in Charlotte, saying his father backed those decisions. ....
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