What a terrible loss, John, and what a pity nobody in your X-wife's family realized how valuable that stuff was. You could probably not have made a lot of money but the Smithonian would quite likely have been glad to accept it as a donation. Pitcairn definitely is one example of how a man strives to realize a dream and to keep memories of such people alive today offers people, young and old, a cairn along the uncharted path of your personal quest that is life.