Shane's Inspiration

We went to a park called Shane's Inspiration. Shane, I read, was a little boy who was born prematurely and who would have been confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his days, but he died when he was two weeks old. However, his parents discovered that had he lived, he wouldn't have been able to play in a playground, so they built one.

(This spirit of philanthropy that Americans have surprises me - I wonder where it comes from, and why other places don't have it, but anyway ...)

There are some pictures below. Notice the wheelchair accessible ramp to the climbing frame. (The pictures aren't very good. The boys were a bit nervous about the size of the playground - it was big, and were determined that Daddy stay in one place, where they told him to.)