. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Baltimore church he admired and asked if they would accept a small stained glass window. It would cost them nothing, he told them. He would show them a drawing first, and if they weren't pleased with the window, he would be willing to remove it, he recalls, chuckling at his earnestness. "It was like asking someone, 'May I mow your grass, please, for free?'" he says. LeCompte created the window and was halfway through another when church members whose son had been killed asked if he would make the
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Baltimore church he admired and asked if they would accept a small stained glass window. It would cost them nothing, he told them. He would show them a drawing first, and if they weren't pleased with the window, he would be willing to remove it, he recalls, chuckling at his earnestness. "It was like asking someone, 'May I mow your grass, please, for free?'" he says. LeCompte created the window and was halfway through another when church members whose son had been killed asked if he would make the second window as a memorial. He agreed and was thrilled when the family offered him payment. Until then, he had worked for friends and family, accepting whatever they gave. Before the second window was complete, another family who had lost a loved one appeared, requesting a window. Then another family came, and another, all who had lost young relatives. "And you know, from that day to this, which is not just a few days," LeCompte says slowly, remembering, "I've never been without a commission. Sometimes, there's been only one, but I've always had at least something to work on, and that has made it possible for me to do this for a living as well as for ; In Washington National Cathedral,. Church of the Servant altarpiece LeCompte will soon have created 45 windows, including the West Rose, which measures 26 feet across. In 1999, he will finish the last two of a series of 18 clerestory windows, each 15 feet wide by 30 feet tall. A 23-year project, the windows will have the clarity and brilliance that once blazed down into the great medieval churches of France, such as the cathedral at Chartres, before those windows became clouded and worn by time. Unlike those of his contemporar- ies who sought to simulate the aged patina medieval glass windows now wear, LeCompte, a self-taught historian and avid researcher, tries to recapture their former sparkle even as
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