Friday, October 19, 2007

An interesting place to visit if you come to VT

A little bit about Vermont that is rather interesting. My son in studying Vermont history in school. A couple of weeks ago we took a little trip to the Vermont Marble factory. Which is one of Vermont's big exports. Fun and intersting muesum.

Loads of very cool carvings. This was the presidents room. Of course the next week they were going to Calvin Coolidge Estate...You know one of the Presidents. Did you know one of the Presidents was from Vermont.?



Well...we found his carving and his little info card.

They also had an artisit there making carvings while you watch. He was making an owl. Marble carving is a very loud art form. Lots of drills and hammering on stone.
My favorite part was all the old giant photographs of the places they mine the marble and of the factory we were standing in.
We crossed these tracks to get into the building.



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