Richard sat in the chair to my right, resting his camera on his lap and tapping his fountain pen against his palm out of habit.

He looked across the gym toward the science displays and pointed at Lucas’s table.

“Look at the triangulation on that center span,” Richard said.

“That’s proper structural geometry.”

“He spent three weeks calculating the stress distribution,” I said.

Margaret unfastened the brass clasp on the leather-bound Caldwell family album and opened it to the newest pages at the back.

Below the old family trees and yellowed photographs from forty years ago, four new color photographs were mounted in clear corner sleeves.

Henry was pictured standing beside a military search helicopter at an air show.