Vermont Marble Valley Stories - Authentic Local Tales & History | Perfect for Travel Enthusiasts & History Buffs
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In the nineteenth century, Rutland was the center of a booming marble industry. By the early twentieth century, the Vermont Marble Company was considered the largest U.S. corporation in the world. Today, the region of southwestern Vermont that runs from Middlebury in the north to Dorset in the south is still called the Marble Valley, "? and visitors flock every year to tour the Vermont Marble Museum and the International Carving Studio and to picnic in the quarries. In this first comprehensive history, Mike Austin chronicles the hardships, religious lives, labor struggles and triumphs of the Marble Valley's workers and industrious settlers. Complete with excerpts from firsthand accounts and news clippings, this wide-scoping history gives an intimate portrayal of the men and women who shaped the Vermont Marble Valley and made it their home."
Customer Reviews
My review is more anticipatory than evaluative. I have read Dr. Austin's dissertation an inspiring and compassionate discussion of circumstances that made this area of Vermont so rich in natural resources enlivened by the people that brought the marble industries to life. Austin reminds us of the importance of both the leaders and the workers who brought this region into prominence during the 19th and 20th century. What is so important about Dr. Austin's perspective is his evenhanded insightfulness into the dialogue, not vilifying the management or the heroicizing the worker, but understanding the nuanced complexity of an industry that succeeded as the largest marble venture in the country and perhaps the world for almost 100 years.
