[AZ-Observing] Re: Lowell's Mausoleum
- From: gene lucas <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:12:22 -0700
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
(17250)
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?
>>>
>>>
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> 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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