Barre, Vermont
Granite city in central Vermont, USA.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| On Stones | Ellyn Gaydos | subject | Gaydos profiles Barre, Vermont, the granite-carving town where she once lived on a farm, through its carvers Heather Milne Ritchie, George Kurjanowicz and Giuliano Cecchinelli. |
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On Stones — Ellyn Gaydos (2024)
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Barre was Vermont’s most diverse city, 90 percent of its workforce was unionized, and anarchists attempted to assassinate the police chief.
- Role: subject
- In the article: Gaydos profiles Barre, Vermont, the granite-carving town where she once lived on a farm, through its carvers Heather Milne Ritchie, George Kurjanowicz and Giuliano Cecchinelli. She visits in June 2022 and again in November, staying in a robin’s-egg-blue house with her husband and daughter. The essay traces the industry’s boom (18,000 workers in 1929, about 800 now), the pandemic surge in memorial orders, the drug crisis and the dying apprentice tradition.
- Why it matters: The whole article is about Barre as an industry town that manufactures memorials and seems to run on an older, slower clock. It is the essay’s central place.