This week’s poem brings us into the presence of granite, as a stoneworker expertly splits it open. I love the tactile details and sounds that poet Sonja Johanson brings to the rock and to the act of ...

This is the latest in a series of monthly columns on central Vermont's granite industry provided by the Vermont Granite Industry of Barre. New England farmers often split granite from surface boulders ...

Maine is well-known for its hard rock. Not the Metallica kind. The kind used to build post offices, customs houses and monuments. Prisons, office buildings, churches and more recently, kitchen ...