Collection Items
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of [Dust on his Clothes]
Men Against Granite Roaldus iiichmond Soction Files TE DU2T ON 7IS CLOT Ht4 cek cY04ie The widow sat by the window watching the spring sunshine on the granite paved street Across the river light fall on the shod roofs where her husband Edo had worked Down the street men were entering or leaving the beer garden where Edo Used to stop on the way home We came...- Contributor: Elsa - Richmond, Roaldus
- Date: 1940-07-31
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of [Dust on his Clothes]
Men Against Granite 2 it But the women know We see it coming the change It begins to show in a mans face in his eyes Sometimes the smell of granite dust on Edos clothes would make me want to cry but not when he could see me Edo was a gay laughing man tall and strong Be could sing too he had a fine voice And...- Contributor: Elsa - Richmond, Roaldus
- Date: 1940-07-31
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of [Dust on his Clothes]
Men Against Granite 3 I dont care about going back to Italy I think its worse over there I would have gone back We used to talk about it lots Bow we would go back together and tell the old friends about Barre our new home and new friends It would have been good to go back with Edo but not alone Mhat do I do now...- Contributor: Elsa - Richmond, Roaldus
- Date: 1940-07-31
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of [Dust on his Clothes]
Men Against Granite bosses Most of them did well They needed little capital to start The important thing Edo used to stiy was the hard work the skilled work they put into the monuments and the patience And as the money came in they replaced hand tools with the machinery the big sheds were beginning to put in I never went near the sheds Only once I...- Contributor: Elsa - Richmond, Roaldus
- Date: 1940-07-31
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of [Dust on his Clothes]
Men Against Granite a sickness I remember the last afternoon be sat in the sun It was late May E was looking at the early onion tops that were showing in neighbor Tools vegetable garden and he said Remember Elsa it was May when we left Brescia May fifteenth And over there the potato sprouts were already pushing through the earth here the green comes later The...- Contributor: Elsa - Richmond, Roaldus
- Date: 1940-07-31