In a 2018 photo, an overview of the deep 250-foot quarry area at Swenson Granite. It is time-consuming and expensive to move things and people into and out of a 250-foot hole. The difficulty isn’t ...

An evocative dance film set in Vermont, in one of the oldest granite quarries in the world. Six years in the making, The Quarry Project was a dance/theater performance that took place on the waters of ...

Quincy's mayor plans to move a historic granite house to the Quarry and Granite Workers Museum to save it from demolition. Historical Commission members suggested more visible locations and requested ...

In a recent drive up Rattlesnake Hill, Kurt Swenson found the quarry he once owned eerily quiet. Gone were the employees who sliced blocks of stone from walls a hundred-plus feet down from the edge, a ...

Based on the book "Built from Stone: The Westerly Granite Story," CARVED FROM STONE: LEGACY OF A GRANITE TOWN shows Westerly granite as the "gold standard," with hundreds of blacksmiths, carvers, ...

QUINCY – If you haven't been up to the Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers Museum in a while (or ever), you're in for several inviting changes. This has been called a "quiet gem" of Quincy's history.

A historic Quincy "stone house" was saved from demolition after public outcry prompted the mayor to intervene. The 200-year-old home was disassembled and is being rebuilt at the Quincy Quarry and ...

Rock of Ages, which last summer celebrated 100 years of welcoming visitors to tour its world-class granite quarry and stone-sculpting operation, will no longer be open to the public. “After more than ...

The company that owns the Swenson Granite quarry in Concord says it plans to resume cutting slabs of stone there by next summer and in the meantime will continue processing material into smaller ...