Austin's Memorial Stone

Celebration at the Old Town House, May 30

There will be more entries here as we receive them.

Here is the poem read by Alex (Austin's grandson).


High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee

No 412 squadron, RCAF

Killed 11 December 1941

Memorial Gathering in Union

A memorial gathering to celebrate the life of Austin M. Jones will be held Saturday, May 30, 2009, at 2:00 pm. The location is the Old Town House on Rt. 235/ Town House Road in Union, Maine, just north of the Union Common.

Appalachian Trail Photos

AT Trip 3 Coopers Brook, Maine

Austin in front of the lean-to, Potowadjo Springs, Maine

15 year Appalachian Trail Volunteers Pam and Austin

A Few More Pictures

From the Bernhards/Perkins Collection. You can click on the picture to make it larger. Use the back arrow to return or you may end up leaving the page.

Gotta love those cars!

Above, wedding anniversary, June 23, 197?????

50th Anniversary, June 23, 2001



Austin, Norma, Pat, Laura, Robin, ? , John

Tribute to Austin by the Maine Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation

Glen Rea let us know that the Maine Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation has a new website that has a nice tribute to Austin on it. Click on the link below to get to their webpage, and then click on Austin's picture to read the article and chapter members' recollections of times with Austin.

http://www.me-acf.org/ME-TACF_lite/Home.html

Thanks, Glen!

Union Historical Society Newsletter Article

This article appeared in a recent issue of the Union Historical Society's newsletter. Click on the image to enlarge it.