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[gene lucas <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This protective cover was evidently added since I have visited "Uncle 
Percy"...
Since it is coming up on Halloween season, perhaps I should re-tell the 
tale of "Lowell's Ghost", as related to me years ago by (the late) Chick 
Capen....
 
Gene Lucas
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Brian Skiff wrote:

>>> There is a glass cover over the top of Lowell's
>>> Mausoleum, with some dark tiles that I presume the glass is protected.
>>> Any idea what those tiles are made of and why they need
>>> the glass protection?
>>>      
>>>
> 
>     The 'dome' of Lowell's mausoleum is dark blue stained glass.
>About 20 years ago it was vandalized with the effect that one or
>two of the tiles were broken.  At the time there were several
>artists renting workshop space on Mars Hill, one of whom was
>(and still is) an expert stained-glass artist.  She got the right
>kind fo glass to replace the broken tiles.  But the aging metal
>framework for the stained glass was also starting to allow rain/snow
>to leak onto Uncle Percy underneath.  So it was decided to have made
>the frame to go over it (hard plastic or something like lucite)
>to help protect it from the elements as well as vandals.
>
>\Brian
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