“Hope Cemetery is a rural cemetery[1] in Barre, Vermont. The city calls itself the “Granite Capital of the World”, and the cemetery is known for the superb granite craftsmanship on its memorials and tombstones. Barre is also home to the world’s largest “deep hole” granite quarry, the Rock of Ages quarry, also known as theContinue reading “Hope Cemetery #2: More Funerary Art!”
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Hope Cemetery’s FuneraryArt: Part 1
“Hope Cemetery is a rural cemetery[1] in Barre, Vermont. The city calls itself the “Granite Capital of the World”, and the cemetery is known for the superb granite craftsmanship on its memorials and tombstones. Barre is also home to the world’s largest “deep hole” granite quarry, the Rock of Ages quarry, also known as theContinue reading “Hope Cemetery’s FuneraryArt: Part 1”
Richardson Place in Burlington, VT
Today’s video, https://youtu.be/bNhuPwmY-iM, is on Richardson Place in Burlington, VT. If we’re old enough, we remember it as Abernethy’s Department Store. As one of the three buildings at the top of Church Street, it is part of the Head of Church Street Historic District. All three of those buildings, Richardson Place, the Masonic Temple andContinue reading “Richardson Place in Burlington, VT”