Origin of the Brick Plaza
told by Craig Inglis
In 2010 a Skylaker, Huey Perry, proposed a committee to select and
award college scholarships to college-bound White County High School students.
The Scholarship committee was soon formed and it developed a detailed
Scholarship Application form.
That worked well, but by 2011 it became clear that the committee needed more
sustainable fundraising. I joined the committee that year and promoted an idea
suggested by my wife, Ingrid. She thought we should ask the POA to build a
brick plaza. The result is Skylake's "Legacy Plaza" of bricks.
The purpose was to give Skylakers a lasting way to honor contributors to
our Skylake community, to memorialize family members or friends, to show
their school spirit, etc.
Donors pay $100 for the engraving and installation of each brick.
Net profits from this service go to the Skylake Scholarship Fund.
The photo above is of the first brick installed. It lies at the very center of
the plaza. Skylakers liked the idea and, as of August 2024, there were
228 bricks installed. There still is room for an additional 900 bricks!
Do you have an interesting story about a brick in the Legacy Plaza?
Please share it with us.
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About the Liars' Club memorial bricks
Danny Stephens
In September 2016 the Liars' Club dedicated their first brick to memorialize a
member who had passed away. This practice has continued through the years and
they have no intention of changing it. Their memorial bricks are found in
the Liars' Club Memorials section of bricks.
About Ivy's short poem bricks
Ivy Rutzky
In 2013 Ivy started to donate bricks containing short poems in the style of
Haiku, a style that originated in Japan. Since her poems are engraved into the
brick, she now calls them Bricku style.
Ivy has long been a poet and had published a poetry book about the time
that she began to think about composing short poems to fit on bricks. The
muse for all of her Bricku poems is nature. Often the muse visits her while
she is in her kayak on Skylake Lake.
About Skymen and Skyladies bricks
Skylake volunteer Man of the Year
The Skylake Men's Club (Skymen) has honored a Volunteer Man of the Year every
year since 1999. The honoree receives a framed certificate and a brick for him
is installed in the Legacy Plaza. The award is announced at the POA Annual
Meeting.
Woman of the Year
The Skyladies have chosen a Skylady of the Year ever since 2014.
The honoree receives a framed certificate and a brick for her
is installed in the Legacy Plaza. The award is announced at the POA Annual
Meeting.
About the HONEYMOONERS brick
A joke that maybe only Boomers get
This brick was donated by Skylakers Alice and Ralph Carey. The
Honeymooners was a very
popular TV sitcom in the 1950s (black and white TV) on CBS that was about two
working-class married couples featured in a comedic, non-idyllic manner.
The scene is always the Brooklyn apartment kitchen of Ralph, a
bus-driver, and his wife, Alice. Also present are Ed and Trixie,
neighbors from the next apartment. The role of Ralph was played by Jackie
Gleason and Alice was played by Audrey Meadows.
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