Administered by Randolph Macon College Public Relations Office P. O. Box 5005 Ashland Virginia 23005
Located Randolph Macon College Caroline & Calhoun Streets, near entrance to Science Center Ashland Virginia
Date:
1983. Dedicated Nov. 3, 1984
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Virginia survey, 1995.
Summary:
On the top of the sundial a boy sits drawing with a stick in the sand. He holds the stick in his proper left hand which he rests on his knee. He supports himself with his proper right hand. The stick becomes a gnomon for the sundial. The top of the sundial is divided into four sections, three of which illustrate the history of the college and one of which illustrates the future of the college. Also illustrated on the top of the sundial are symbols of the sun and moon, a tortoise and a hare, tools used to make a sundial; a lily pad with a frog catching a dragon fly, sycamore leaves, and an allegorical scene of a boy fishing, a book; diagrams of the college, a rabbit, a skillpot, a squirrel, a black snake, a blue-tailed skink, junkos, a hummingbird, a sparrow, crows, a cardinal, honey bees, and butterflies. There are also dogwood, acorns, oak trees, maple leaves, catkins, honeysuckle, trumpet-vine, morning glories and holly with holly berries.
