Vermont Granite Museum (8/18/2022)

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Now we are in Vermont to visit the Vermont Granite Museum in Barre, VT, the Granite Center of the World.

The Vermont Granite Museum is located in the former
Jones Brothers granite manufacturing plant (c 1895)

Barre & Chelsea Railroad Locomotive #14 with
a flat car carrying a block of Barre Gray granite

Granite rollers for Conche machinery that grinds
cacao beans and sugar in the making of chocolate

Photo of Giuliano Cecchinelli, perhaps
the last of the gifted Italian stone carvers
who migrated to Barre in the past century

Relief portraiture by Giuliano Cecchinelli

Repose (1983, by Giuliano Cecchinelli)

Fire fighting equipment (1872) of the Barre Fire Department

General view inside the Vermont Granite Museum (KSS)

Exhibit of different surface finishes

Exhibit on gravestone symbols: 1) the finger pointed up
reflects the family's hope that the deceased has gone
to heaven, and 2) the Cohanim hands on the graves of
Jewish men indicates they are descended from Aaron,
the first priest and brother of Moses

Spaceright Letters are arranged and then rubbed over on
paper to create cutouts used as a guide to place letters on stone

Barre Sculpture Studios plaster casts

Stone carver-in-residence

Mouse Model (2016, by Ryan Mays)
of a sculpture now at a Montpelier library

Is this the bust of the poet, Robert Frost?
... he was Poet Laureate of Vermont

There were several opportunities for
children to create

Stone carving tools

Next: Hope Cemetery.