WAITING FOR AGNES

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by Joe Bullard

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Inspired by the True Story of Coral Castle

LOVE FOR CORAL CASTLE

FAST FACTS

Now after thousands of years of wondering how the Great Pyramid was built, here is a man who understood the Pyramid's secret, and he dies, forgotten, in Florida. How can this be? This frustration is what drove me to research and write, for 16 years, the story of Ed's life in my novel "Waiting For Agnes." The following story shows how Ed's genius has been regarded by the world's elite. With only a fourth grade education, Ed designed a 9-ton swinging gate in Coral Castle's east wall. The huge block of coral is extremely uneven in its proportions. Ed faced the problem of finding the stone's exact center and running a rod down through the center in order to connect the gate to the wheel bearings of a 1920 Ford truck so the gate would spin. The hole had to be perfectly drilled-if it was off even a frog's hair, the rod would not go through. The weight of the stone finally wore down the bearings and the gate stopped opening in 1986.

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Waiting for Agnes is why Ed left his home in Latvia, moved to Florida and built Coral Castle at the edge of the Everglades.