Alain MORY wrote:
>
> Hi, all the sundiallers !
>
> Many thanks for the answers to my request about the amarican song "home
> on the range", especially to John Conolly, Gordon Uber and Dave Bell !
> Now I know all what I wanted to, and even more !
> I hope that this personal message didn't "pollute" this list.
>
> I realise that I forgot to present myself, the first time I subscribe :
> 36 years old, schoolmaster in Alsace (France) and very old "souvenir" of
> English. Sundial list will refresh my old lessons !
> Skydiver since 25 years, I'm interested in Sun, astronautics,
> astro-photography, and ... sundials. I'm working with a stonecarver (or
> sculptor ?) : I calculate, and he works artisticment. We realised
> twenty sundials of Alsacian sandstone (yellow to rose tint).
> I did create, with some friends, an association for protection and
> explanation of the art of sundialling, called "DASYPODIUS". This is the
> name of the dialler who created all the Strasbourg Cathedral sundials
> (more than twenty only on this monument !) The more known is
> "l'adolescent au cadran".
> Our president, Dr Hervé STAUB, published a book about all (more or less
> !) the sundials of Alsace, called "Les horloges silencieuses d'Alsace"
ISBN 2-84208-025-4
