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100 Yr Old Tombstone: Short and Worth the View!
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Posted on 01/08/2010 1:51:54 PM PST by RolandTignor

This is incredible, scroll down through the three pictures... the last one is amazing.



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KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010; 2010midterms; congress; democratcongress; democratcorruption; democratparty; democrats; elections; grigsby; history; liberalfascism; nathanielgrigsby; partyoftreason; politics; shadowparty
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To: martin_fierro
Nothing ostentatious . . .

81 posted on 01/08/2010 8:51:29 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: pandoraou812

Yeah, I saw this. Democrats. Scum then, scum now.


82 posted on 01/08/2010 9:12:38 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: BenLurkin
He was only nine years old in 1776!

That would make him 26 when the Constitutions was finally officially ratified.
OK, so he was a godfather...

83 posted on 01/08/2010 9:43:50 PM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: BenLurkin
He was only nine years old in 1776!

That would make him 26 when the Constitutions was finally officially ratified.
OK, so he was a godfather...

84 posted on 01/08/2010 9:43:59 PM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: potlatch

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Mucho thanks potlatch!


85 posted on 01/08/2010 10:56:43 PM PST by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . woodpile alert - "My muslim faith....." - "Kobe" Osama . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: TalBlack

Is the supply of good gray Barre granite (Rock of Ages) holding up? I know they were having trouble a while back.


86 posted on 01/09/2010 12:21:21 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
I think Rock of Ages is a brand. Maybe they were wobbling? I haven't heard that the quarry at Barre VT is tapping out. They have a lot of competition from GA, India and China these days. Believe it or not it is cheap to quarry polish and cut the stone including inscription in China and ship it here (these things weigh 450lb minimum).

I understand the quarry at Barre VT is a great family trip. The scale of operation there is said to be breathtaking.

87 posted on 01/09/2010 4:04:28 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: RolandTignor

Ping


88 posted on 01/09/2010 10:51:43 AM PST by Danae (Don't think the Constitution matters? Try living in a country without one.)
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To: TalBlack
I think Rock of Ages is a brand. Maybe they were wobbling?

Yes, it is. They have quarries around the world, but I am partial to their Barre product. At the time, from what I recall, they were getting into more intrusions and losing the beautiful consistency that they previously had with that gray, so their estimates were dropping.

I understand the quarry at Barre VT is a great family trip. The scale of operation there is said to be breathtaking.

Yeah...my Rock of Ages T-shirt would be several sizes too small these days, but I had kept it for a long time for the memories.

I see from their website that their quarry operations are 600 feet deep and their workshop is huge.

Believe it or not it is cheap to quarry polish and cut the stone including inscription in China and ship it here (these things weigh 450lb minimum).

Yes, it's a sad thing, but I believe it. American costs are so much higher than over there.

As for lettering, I recall my father explaining to me that he'd specified a way to inscribe my grandparents' stone to enhance the lettering as it weathered, basically with the raised center that I see others using now. Once I got into typography a bit, I began to think of what typeface would be best to improve on my dad's idea. I still haven't had the time to figure it out. But no matter what I pick, I know it will be better than the old marble markers my ancestors used (which are intact but illegible)...or the beautifully detailed siltstone ones that are split along bedding planes even though the writing is still so sharp.

Go Granite!

89 posted on 01/10/2010 3:29:53 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: TalBlack
Barre Granite...


90 posted on 01/10/2010 3:35:47 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: truthguy
"What I cannot decide is are they stupid or evil or more like the combination of both."

I've believed and promoted that theory for years; you must be evil or stupid to be a Democrat. I think the leaders are evil because they know what they are doing is wrong yet do it any way. Their followers are just stupid. Evil and stupid pretty much sums 'em up!
91 posted on 01/10/2010 4:04:46 AM PST by 762X51
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To: Gondring

You don’t have to worry about weathering with granite. Stones cut with a chisel into mirror polish (very shallow, maybe 1/8”)over 150 years ago are STILL perfect today. The polish hasen’t even begun to haze, which would be the first sign of weathering. Most inscriptions I cut today are several times deeper. If you worry about such things the stone called “Jet Black” is even harder and heavier than Barre grey which is the contract specified standard in the Big NYC cemeteries. If Barre grey fails in any way while it is set in the cemetery the quarry has to replace it.


92 posted on 01/10/2010 11:57:26 AM PST by TalBlack
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