Grimacing, gaping, grinning, mischievous creatures perched adjacent to Heaven, they invitation us, situation us, to rise our gaze. Faith Salie gets an up-close look astatine the gargoyles and grotesques that decorate the precocious reaches of the National Cathedral successful Washington, D.C., from the menacing (Medusa, Darth Vader) to the cheeky (a crooked person – cleanable for the nation's capital!). Salie besides talks with the cathedral's caput mason, Joe Alonso; with chromatic carver Walter S. Arnold and sculptor Jay Hall Carpenter; and with gargoyle adept Janetta Rebold Benton astir the past of these religion denizens
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