Architect given weeks to live has one last plan

Chances are Ron Morgan has less than 18 weeks to live. He is happy. “I’ll tell you why,” Morgan said a few days ago, relaxing in his living room, one of his sculptures on the floor, a print he designed hanging on the opposite wall, an eye patch beside him because the cancer that may kill him is affecting his optic nerves. “This is sort of a gift,” he said. “You could be hit by a Mack Truck and not have time to do anything. But I get to work on my dream project.” Morgan, who is 73, has always been a man of grand ideas. His latest project may be the grandest of all: If he does die – and the doctor gave him only a 20 percent chance of surviving – he wants to leave behind the groundwork for a...