Two workmen are standing by several steam boilers close to a set of steps leading down to the quarry. A flatbed railroad car is on tracks close to the quarry, and there is a windowless shed to the ...

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The William Benton Museum of Art’s current exhibition embarks on “The Human Epoch: Living in Anthropocene”. Photo courtesy of the William Benton Museum of Art webpage. Slowly but surely, the William ...

All Things Considered is taking listeners on a tour of the best swimming holes in the country — including one in Dorset, Vt., where an old marble quarry now attracts swan divers and belly floppers.

Stacks of marble at the Vermont Marble Company in 1915 (Credit Collection of the Vermont Marble Museum Preservation Trust of Vermont) A crane in the marble quarry in 1910 (Credit Collection of the ...

CHANCE TO VENTURE INSIDE. ERIKA: WHAT DO HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY HAVE IN COMMON? THE TINY TOWN OF DORSET, VERMONT. THIS IS WHERE ALL THAT STATELY MARBLE CAME FROM. OUR ...