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Search for the Soapstone Quarry, Part II
ricktrojanowski:
Dane-
Your writing is awesome, you really capture that New England feel and can clearly translate it to words. It's funny I've been to Putney and Brattleboro so many times but never ventured East of West from there. Sam's is such a great place. I definitely want in on the next search. Also to try this BBQ joint out. I usually go for the meatloaf sandwich at the Putney diner. However, food served out of immobile buses seems much more Vermont like. ;D
Dane:
Rick, thanks about my writing. For sure, let's arrange to get togther and go up there. I'm going to order some maps from the USGS so we can pinopoint the quarries this time. I'm hoping we can go sometime this summer. I'll let you know as soon as I get the maps, and maybe even in time that we can look them over at the Primitive meet in Jamie's stomping ground.
Stopping at Curtis is a must, and I'll have to try out the diner. Do you remember the general store, about diagonal across from the Putney Diner? It had major fire damage and was closed last summer, but they seem to be rebuilding it now. Basketville is still there, too. :)
Dane
ricktrojanowski:
Dane-
It's funny you mention that general store. I have a funny story about an incident that took place there with my wife. I have an idea, we'll drop my wife off at Basketville. Then we go search for ghosts, and the mine, gather some rock, have lunch and maybey dinner then come back for her. We would still be waiting for her to finish shopping ;D. She loves that place.
Bone pile:
My daughter and her family live in central Vermont so we try to get there at least in the fall.Every year we do a road trip while we are there and search out some of the interesting places.I've seen the articilles on the soapstone quarries,but could never find anyone who knew much on were they are.I really like the story your developing.There's a seasonal eating place in my daughters area called Onion Flats ,they roll in set up for the summer put out some tables and have at it.Well I wish you luck and hopefully we will be up leaf peepin'this fall.Do you knapp? I am always looking for different rock to beat on.
Bone pile
Dane:
Rick, your wife and mine must be sisters...she loves shopping. The curse of husbands, eh? I want to train her to shop for tools instead of 600 count Egyptian cotton sheets.
If you wife wants to come, great, if she wants to shop, great. All good to me.
Bone, there were a number of soapstone quarries in Vermont, and I think only one or two are commercially worked today. There is a ton of really cool soapstone products in the little museum in Grafton. It is really hard, I have found out, to find any info on the old soapstone industry. Maybe one day I should write a book, but I doubt there is much of a market for the topic. Maybe if it was about haunted quarries, it would sell though. :)
I dont yet knapp, but want to learn, and will get around to it one day. It looks like great fun, and I admire stone knappers. I am not sure what kind of stone there is in Vermont aside from rocks they grow in cultivated fields and granate.
Dane
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