Get down here! There's a pocket you can drive your van into!" Thus began the phone call from Bryon Brookmyer on 26 October 2000. He was calling from the York Building Supply Company's limestone quarry in York, Pennsylvania, where, with the owner's permission, we had been collecting for the past several months.
By the time I could break away from my business to join him, there was only an hour of daylight remaining. What I saw as I drove in was incredible. Bryon's car was ...