Phoenix - Ernest W. McFarland Memorial

I work near the Capital building and have started exploring the monuments and memorials in the area. I find it quite interesting that I have lived in Phoenix for such a long time, yet there are still a lot of sites that I do not take the time to visit. Isn't that true of our own hometowns a lot of the time?

This is located in the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza.  The first memorial that I visited was Ernest W. McFarland.  You can read more about him here. He was a democratic senator for Arizona, the tenth Governor of Arizona, and chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.  He is also honored as the "Father of the G.I. Bill."

The area is very nice and is across the street from the Arizona Supreme Court.  It is Winter in this photo, so you can imagine that it would be very shaded in the Spring and Summer.

 The fountain and seating were very interesting in that they looked like large books.

 A wall shows a list of his accomplishments.

Amazon has a few books about his life and story. (Affiliate links)