Scott Wolter
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If you measure the longest point, longest dimension, and the width and add it together, it's 32 point whatever inches.
It's exactly one megalithic yard.
On the outside, back to back, and notice how it's not at the top of the archway.
Normally, when you put in a keystone, it's to function as a structural support for that archway, right?
And it's up in the middle.
That's where it's designed to be.
But it's not there in this archway.
And I've made the argument no medieval self-respecting stonemason would do that, right?
It should be in the middle, but it's not.
It's lighting up at theβ
at exactly nine o'clock in the morning.
And I made this discovery in 2007.
And I have to give credit to Jim Egan, who has a shop literally on the other side of the street there, who is a photographer.
And I was actually attending, and Janet was with me, we attended a presentation that he gave of his beautiful photographs of Newport two months before this in October of 2007.
And he happened to catch,
the light going on the Keystone.
And he said, hey, look at this, this is really pretty.
And when I saw it, I went, wait a minute, go back.
And I just interrupted his talk.
I couldn't help myself.