The Barre granite industry, past and present, was on display Saturday, October 14, at the Vermont Granite Museum in Barre. Above, sculptor Gary Sassi at work on a memorial. Below, in descending order: a detail of Sassi’s work; sculptor Chris Miller at work on a giant granite wheel for an outsized sculpture of a 1944 John Deere tractor; a close look at Miller’s granite wheel; sculptor Giuliano Cecchinelli with some of his work he has done in nearly six decades in Barre granite; a young sculptor works with clay.
