The best monument is a book

Famous people are memorialized in many ways, writes Garrison Keillor in the June 4 edition of The Salt Lake Tribune--by having airports and freeways named after them, by having huge stone monuments built in their honor. But the best way to remember someone is through words, according to Keillor, who says that Abraham Lincoln is perhaps best illuminated through the Library of America edition of his writings.

"No writer needs a memorial," Keillor adds. If you want to know about the true E.B. White, you should simply read Charlotte's Web or "Here Is New York."

Finally, says Keillor, the best memorial so far to the people who died in the Twin Towers during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack is a book, 102 Minutes. "Those people live on in the book," he says, "which is about large and small acts of heroism and kindness in the face of death." For more of Keillor's thoughts, read the full article.