Conan Mills still believes LSU’s Military Museum Director James Gregory somehow willed a chunk of marble into existence.
Mills, a graduate student in the LSU Department of Geology & Anthropology, was leading a four-week excavation of the university’s original home in Pineville last June when his team happened upon the marble stone that once topped the school’s entryway.
“I sat down with (Mills) and said, ‘Look, if there’s one thing I want you to find for me, it would be the stone that used to be above the door,’” Gregory said. “And he said, ‘Man, that’s long gone.’ Sure enough, two weeks later, Conan calls me and says, ‘I think you must have willed it into existence.’”…