[AZ-Observing] Re: Lowell's Mausoleum
- From: "Jimmy Ray" <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:41:58 -0700
...and you could tell it at midnight on Halloween as we all sat around the
inside of the Clark dome, pearing at Mars through the 24" and scare the heck
out of ouselves. Percival might find that quite humorous...
(Personally I just want to look at Mars through the 24" to say I've done it
and touch the piece of history I have read so much about)
Jimmy Ray
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From: "gene lucas" <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 20:12
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Lowell's Mausoleum
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?
>>>
>>>
>
> 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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