The William Benton Museum of Art’s current exhibition embarks on “The Human Epoch: Living in Anthropocene”. Photo courtesy of the William Benton Museum of Art webpage. Slowly but surely, the William ...

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CHANCE TO VENTURE INSIDE. ERIKA: WHAT DO HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY HAVE IN COMMON? THE TINY TOWN OF DORSET, VERMONT. THIS IS WHERE ALL THAT STATELY MARBLE CAME FROM. OUR ...

Two workmen are standing by several steam boilers close to a set of steps leading down to the quarry. A flatbed railroad car is on tracks close to the quarry, and there is a windowless shed to the ...

DORSET, Vt. (NEWS10) – Vermont State Police positively identified the body recovered from First Marble Quarry Wednesday morning as 21-year-old Hadil Marzouq. The cause of death was ruled a drowning.

Dorset, VT: The Town That Marble Made What do Harvard Medical School and the New York Public Library have in common? The tiny town of Dorset Vermont. THIS is where all that stately marble came ...

All Things Considered is taking listeners on a tour of the best swimming holes in the country — including one in Dorset, Vt., where an old marble quarry now attracts swan divers and belly floppers.

History is quite literally carved into stone in this Rutland County community, where Vermont marble has shaped both the landscape and its legacy for generations. At the Carving Studio and Sculpture ...

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Vermont is the Green Mountain State, but it is the bedrock beneath the verdant hills that defines the state's identity and history. Vermont marble has played a key role in building America, and it ...

Men waving red flags and shouting a warning to townspeople to watch out for flying stone was a common sight in the early days of quarrying. "Through The Ages" in January 1924 depicted a typical ...