Tonight Grampy and Grammy took Flat Corrin to see a granite quarry. There are lots of quarries on this island, and a lot of the other islands here. The granite from Stonington was used in a lot of famous places like Rockefeller Center and the Brooklyn Bridge. The quarry we went to is where President Kennedy's grave stone came from.
They don't use this quarry anymore, but this is the old powder house where they used to keep the dynamite.
This is part of the cable they used to use to haul the stones.
This is called a wedge. They used to hammer these iron wedges into holes they drilled in the stone in straight lines to make a crack so the stones would be straight when they blasted.
This is Grampy and flat Corrin high up on the hill at the quarry.
Flat Corrin was getting very tired, so Grammy helped her sit on a rock and rest before the long walk down the hill.
No comments:
Post a Comment