This Scripsit commemorates the work of honorary Washington Calligraphers Guild member Ieuan Rees, a Welsh lettering artist best known for his many stone-carved inscriptions around Wales and the greater UK. Rather than focusing solely on Rees, we profile some of his memorable commissions to ask deeper questions about why public lettering matters and what it can mean to us.
 
In the following pages, you will go on a Google Earth tour of his works, and read about how his work echoes stone inscriptions in Wales from Roman and medieval times alike. You will see how his headstones enable mourning and memory, revealing the Welsh landscape and even the cosmos. Finally, Rees will help us see that perhaps we need not wholly fear the fate of hand lettering in a digital age. The 36-page issue was edited and mostly written by Joanna Homrighausen.