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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Francis Slason quarry opened in 1830 in West Rutland. It was worked for a short time, closed, then was re-opened a half century later by the Standard Marble Co. Marble Minutes is designed to share ...

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 ...

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 ...

Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...

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 ...

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 ...