The Business Journals

Pacific Granite’s owners carve out solid direction for fast-growing company

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Kennebec Journal

Italian stonecutters in Hallowell carved a legacy of industry and labor from granite

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ABC 10 News

Massive Buddha statue carved into granite in East County

DESCANSO, Calif. (KGTV) — A Descanso man has finished carving a Buddha statue into a granite boulder in his backyard. “Buddha is in every tree just looking at you like every rock,” said artist Duncan ...
Seven Days

Norwich University and Vermont Granite Museum Team Up to Train Stone Carvers

Eighteen thousand people worked in the Barre granite industry at its peak in 1929 — quarrying the rock, carving and shaping the stone, creating the tools used in the stone sheds. These days, that ...
Times Argus

Barre stone carver mentors a new generation of women artists

BARRE — For more than 150 years, granite has shaped life in Barre. Generations of central Vermonters have quarried, cut and carved the stone. Today, only a handful of artists still carve granite by ...