[berdie]

I wanted to see how this thread ended up and saw your post.

I didn’t know what Black Aggie was. What a cool sculpture and history.

I have to admit I googled because we have a college that is referred to as The Aggies (Tx A&M). All I could think of was..Oh, no what have they done now!!

Turned out to be a learning experience.:)

[Salamander]

Is that not just the most awesome tale of intrigue, greed, treachery and horror you can imagine?

I don’t know who would be stupid enough to actually sit on her lap to see if she’ll kill you but lots of people have tried it.

[some “successfully”, if you belive the tales]

I *love* stuff like that.

Cemeteries are quite amazing places.

There is an entire ‘lexicon’ of the symbolism on stones.

Very specific and uniform and I enjoy ‘reading’ the back story written on them.

This is a brief but decent beginner course on the language of the stones

http://www.graveaddiction.com/symbol.html