Visiting Carl Sagan

Sagan was one of many influential people who called Ithaca home. Reminders of his presence permeates Ithaca and Cornell's campus, which include his house on the Fall Creek Gorge and his final resting place at the Lakeview Cemetery. I recently paid tribute with two friends.

Locating Carl Sagan's grave is not too difficult, but it did take us half an hour. He is buried in Ithaca, New York at the Lakeview Cemetary. The cemetary entrance is gated at the top of a hill overlooking downtown Ithaca. Only a couple hundred feet after the gate, his gravestone is just off the road to the right. We found a multitude of placed stones which had been left by previous visitors. We arranged the colored stones in a line representing the planetary system ranging from the sun to pluto as shown below. I know, Pluto is debatibly a planet, but in Sagan's day it certainly was.