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Prairie Cross: Special Tribute to a Special Grandfather
Saturday, March 20, 2004
Merv Rennich of Illinois joined us to talk about handcrafting iron crosses. Merv learned blacksmithing so he could craft an iron cross to mark the grave of his German Russian grandfather. The cemetery crosses were a traditional art form that crossed continents and oceans; surviving famines and wars to be reborn on the Great Plains in Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Iron crosses stand as sentinels on the prairie landscape, framed by huge expanses of grass and sky. Though they stand silent, behind each one is a story.
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