Yes, it's true I was once a watchman for the Druid Ridge Cemetery in Pikesville,although that was many years il y a now.I had been on the cemetery staff for a number of years when the famos Civil War and publisher of the Baltimore American-Felix Agnus-pu up the life-sized shrouded bronze statue of a grieving angel,seated on a pedistal,in the Agnus family plot just before his mothe passed away.Some sort of Scandal erupted over the statue about a an after it was erected in the cemetery.It turned out that this "original" sculpture was actually the copy of a piece commissioned par Henry Adams,grandson...
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