Darth at Washington National Cathedral

[jfickus3rd]

With the warm weather approaching us here in DC, I thought that I'd point
out a little known Star Wars reference on the Washington National in case
someone out there wanted to take a field trip. I'm a change ringer there
and from the ringing chamber (and from the ground) you can see a
grotesque of Darth Vader. A grotesque is kind of like a gargoyle, but
intead of the water draining through his mouth, the water just runs over
the sculpture. Apparently, when the go-ahead was given in the early
1980's to build the two west towers, a contest was held for area
schoolchildren to design a grotesque. A Darth Vader design was the
winner and was carved and put on the north-west tower. It's just of
Vader's head, looking downwards. If anyone out there is in the DC area
and want to see it (AU students?), email me and I'll write detailed
instructions on where to find it.

--
Yours,
Joe

"You make me feel so young,
You make me feel there are songs to be sung,
Bells to be rung and a wonderful fling to be flung!
And even when I'm old and gray, I'm gonna feel the way I do today
'Cause you make me feel so young!"

[Christopher S Elfstrom]

ez04...@dale.ucdavis.edu wrote:

> Hey! A long time ago I used to subscribe to some magazine (I don't remember
> which one) and they had a contest in which readers were asked to submit ideas
> (in the form of drawings) for a gargoyle/grotesque that wold be put on a
> building that was being constructed in D.C.. A few issues later, they showed
> some of the entries, and one of them was Darth Vader! So, does that mean that
> the building discussed above was the one in the contest, and that Darth Vader
> was the winning entry? It was so long ago that I can't remember anything about
> the contest/magazine other than what I said here (except that the Vader drawing
> was really good, and I kept trying to copy it).

> Anyway, does anyone else remeber this?

> Wilson Turner
> wstu...@ucdavis.edu

Yeah, I remember that. It was in National Geographic's "World," a
magazine for younger kids. I wish I's remembered about it four years ago
when I was in D.C....

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[ez04...@dale.ucdavis.edu]

Hey! A long time ago I used to subscribe to some magazine (I don't remember