The author brings to life the remarkable story of the building of the world's last great gothic cathedral, THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL in Washington, D.C. "Without this book no one would know who created the art that fills the storied walls of one of our most interesting buildings, and knowing who they were and the story of what they did really ties the cathedral to American history. " BIOGRAPHY OF TY HARRINGTON: Sailor, explorer and catastrophic emergency manager Ty Harrington has documented his life in words and pictures. After serving as the chief cook and steward of the Schooner Bill of Rights he was looking for a job cooking on a research boat to the Galapagos Islands National Geographic offered him a staff job and three months later he was in the Brazilian Amazon making first contacts with Stone Age Indians. Later he rode freight trains across the warp and woof of America, then mountain bike across India, went to the North Pole not with an expedition, but over-the ice with two Thule Eskimo hunters, a grant from George Soros sent Harrington to the far reaches of the Soviet Empire during the last days of the cold war to report about the conditions of tribal peoples of the USSR and then the same of America's Indians. In the early 1980's Ty Harrington was recruited by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a reserve reports officer and as a reserve disaster public affairs officer and beginning in 1983 Harrington was deployed to both Washington, DC and field operations to provide federal coordination and assistance to the contiguous US, Alaska, Hawaii, territories, such as Guam, US Saipan and the US Virgin Islands, and treaty protectorates such as the Federated States of Micronesia.