My friend Andrius just sent me this samstone placement. It's particularly meaningful to me because both sides of my family come from Kaunas..  Thank you so much Andrius for helping us spread Sam's spirit to an impotant place in our and his past. I look forward to hearing from Ruta what she chooses to do with the Stone..

 Name = Andrius Kulikauskas

Email = ms@ms.lt

Message =
Hi John, We met in Vermont in the summer of 2008.  You gave a talk to
high school science students and I came to listen as I was on campus
at Stephen Wolfram's summer camp.  I was touched by your loss of Sam,
especially as I had recently lost a niece, Marija, 11 years old, to
the flu.  I live in Lithuania and we agreed that I should bring a
Samstone to Kaunas where you have roots.
I was on the road and your Samstone with me, for three
months in the South Side of Chicago where President Obama was a
community organizer, and for three months teaching algebra in Bosnia
(Tuzla and Sarajevo), and I traveled to Boston, Zurich, the Alps, the
Open Davos Forum, Vienna, Turin, always with Samstone tucked away.
Finally, in the village of Smalininkai, at a sculpture symposium, I
met Ruta Oslovskaja, an art historian who works with the Kaunas
Jewish community.  She appreciated our story and we agreed that she
will place our Samstone in a time capsule in Kaunas that is related
to the World Litvak Conference which just took place.  She will write
me when they place the capsule (it was delayed) but I write you now so
that you know.  One thought that came was that all the Jews who died
in the Holocaust were killed as children in that they were condemned
for simply being Jews. Thank you for including us in your sorrow and
your healing.