Thanks for this, Larry. It was, indeed, a very beautiful dial. I wonder if the coiled snake insignia of the Royal American Regiment shown on the dial was the inspiration for the 'coiled snake' and 'don't tread on me' motto used by some of the American revolutionaries a little more than a decade after the dial was made. (Off topic, I know, but I still wonder!) -Len Berggren
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry McDavid" <[email protected]> To: "Sundial Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:38:05 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Finding Those Historic Dial Pictures Some have reported problems following my too-succinct instructions to access the description and pictures of the lovely 1763 dial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Let me try again: NASS recently registered a historic and lovely carved stone sundial dated approximately 1763 and found at the Fort Pitt Block House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I invite you to read about this dial and view the pictures in the on-line sundial Registry at the NASS website: http://www.sundials.org From that home page, click "Sundial Register" in the list at the left of the home page, then scroll to and select Pennsylvania from the list of states on the right of the next page. Finally, scroll down through all the Pennsylvania dials to Dial 641 in Pittsburgh. Click the "7 Photos" link at the bottom of the description text to view the pictures. The registration submission, dial details and photographs were provided by Ms. Kelly Linn, Curator for the Block House at Fort Pitt. Larry McDavid Sundial Registrar North American Sundial Society --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
