Back in February, I was driving through Grantsboro. Headed north on 306 I passed a house that had an odd monument in the front yard, hhmm. Hit the brakes. Bat-turn. It was thigh-high, a half-pipe of concrete on a matching oblong pyramid with a sharpened piece of rebar bent 90 degrees protruding through the half-pipe. “Sloan Analemic Sundial, A Clock, Calendar and Compass” read the sign lying there. There was a facsimile signature there of C. K. Sloan. It did not take long for the resident to speak up. We had a nice conversation in which he told me about his grandfather, the scientist who built this device. He told me he did not know how the thing worked, but kept it to honor his scientist grandfather for whom he had great respect.The orginal markings have been badly defaced accidentally during a cleaning. A copy of the original engraving there is currently laying atop it.

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