What started in 1986 with two small houses has grown into an amphitheater of Istel’s dreams; 2,600 acres where the passage of time is marked by a sundial that uses the arm of God — as painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel — to cast its shadow.
Nearby sits a bit of an old staircase that used to be part of the Eiffel Tower, its steps ascending into the void.
Here, a panel tells the story of slavery in the United States; there, one examines the life of Alexander the Great. A trip to Europe introduced him to the then-unnamed activity of skydiving, an idea Istel brought back to the United States, where the company he cofounded helped popularize the idea of recreational skydiving, becoming known in some quarters as the “Father of American skydiving.”
Perhaps it will become a place of pilgrimage for generations to come; or maybe in seismically-active California it will be destroyed in a catastrophic earthquake, he muses.
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