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Mari Tomasi Men Against Granite Recorded in Writers' Section Files DATE: SEP 3 1940 FOUR WOMEN 1. Scotch Quarryman's Widow. The yellow house on Quarry Hill had seen better days. Two tiers...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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2 My roomer Alex is working only three days a week now. And pretty soon there'll be a two weeks' rest. There always is after Memorial Day. “My husband didn't die of...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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3 on their dues. “I have two sons. Good boys they are, too. They didn't want to work here after they left school, nor did I want them to. Their father always...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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4 If I awake at night, I sort of miss them. And days when they don't work I miss them. Looking at those piles of waste granite isn't a pretty sight, but...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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5 Seventeen years he'd worked at it. Most of the time in Barre, but one year in Montpelier. “I don't take roomers, you can see the house isn't big enough for that....
Contributor:
Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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6 to her daughter who had appeared at the kitchen door. She was a small girl with her mother's red cheeks, and an abundance of black, wavy hair. Underneath the apron she...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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7 But I was satisfied with Barre. It's just large enough, the stores are good, and it's always been lively enough for the children. The only fault I find with Barre is...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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8 Can you blame him for accepting it? I don't. He'd never worked in granite. He'd heard, of course, of Barre and the granite workers. Be he knew of them vaguely, just...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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9 She does Italian baking, too. That brings in a little money.” Mrs. Lachance sighed. “I don't blame her.” ********* 3. Spanish Stonecutter's Widow. She was a large, swarthy-faced woman. Heavy black...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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10 River. That is a pretty river for you. Near our town the river is narrow and deep. It flows past rocks that are a little like granite, but not good enough...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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11 “My husband was a good artist, more for pictures than for stone, I think. In Spain there is a picture of our river that he paint, and a good picture of...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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12 all the time? “I have people left in Spain. I think I have. I have not heard now for two, three years. The people of my husband, they stop from writing...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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13 in Barre only five years when his lungs went bad. He and John were very close friends. His sickness was a blow to John. It seemed to loose some devil in...
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Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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14 they were eager to help. By the end of the next week six were rooming at the house—three Irish; two Scotch, and one Italian. “The extra money was a God-send. I...
Contributor:
Tomasi, Mary - Lachance, Mrs
Date:1940-09-03
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15 own. “There are eight of us in this house now. Five grandchildren, my daughter and son-in-law and myself. The children are grown. The oldest girl graduated from college last year; the...
