Monument Workers Shape Nation's History. Rinker Buck.
by Buck, Rinker; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 75Family. Publisher: Hartford Courant, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery (Va.) | Granite Industries of Vermont (Firm) | Granite sculpture | Marble sculpture | Sepulchral monuments | Stone carversDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In this age of just-in-time delivery, Linda Beaudin knows what it means to race against the clock. Beaudin, 53, is a second-generation granite worker who runs the 'government line' at Granite Industries of Vermont here. From 5 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. every day, she supervises a crew of expert marble cutters and stencil engravers who manufacture the gracefully curved, spare marble headstones that mark the graves of soldiers at national cemeteries in the Northeast. Granite Industries is one of 13 monument makers nationwide that supply soldiers' headstones under a program run by a division of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The company makes about 21,000 marble headstones a year, and is the sole supplier for large national cemeteries in Boston, on Long Island, and for Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article profiles the role that monument workers play in shaping the nation's history.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Monument Workers Shape Nation's History, June 7, 2004; pp. n.p..
"In this age of just-in-time delivery, Linda Beaudin knows what it means to race against the clock. Beaudin, 53, is a second-generation granite worker who runs the 'government line' at Granite Industries of Vermont here. From 5 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. every day, she supervises a crew of expert marble cutters and stencil engravers who manufacture the gracefully curved, spare marble headstones that mark the graves of soldiers at national cemeteries in the Northeast. Granite Industries is one of 13 monument makers nationwide that supply soldiers' headstones under a program run by a division of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The company makes about 21,000 marble headstones a year, and is the sole supplier for large national cemeteries in Boston, on Long Island, and for Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article profiles the role that monument workers play in shaping the nation's history.
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