Granite Artists and Their Work. Karen Blank and Terry Gips, Co-authors. Published by the Barre Ethnic Heritage Studies Project and First Branch Gallery, 1978.

Catalogue of exhibition with a brief history of the granite industry; biographies of granite designers, sculptors, and carvers from Barre; information about artists who documented the industry through paintings, drawings, and prints; and pictures of many of the stones in the Barre and Montpelier, Vermont cemeteries.

(Catalog design, cover photograph, and two photographs below by Terry Gips)

LEFT: Elia Corti Monument. Corti, one of Barre's finest stonecarvers, was shot in 1903. This monument was carved by his brother and is located in Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vermont.

RIGHT: Little Margaret Monument. Carved by E. Bonazzi in 1901 and located in Green Mountain Cemetery in Montpelier, Vermont.