At the beginning of the twentieth century, large numbers of marble quarrymen from Carrara in Italy crossed the Atlantic to work in the granite quarries of Barre, Vermont. In the 1930s, when the industry was already in decline and many quarrymen had succumbed to the occupational lung disease of silicosis, dozens of interviews with Barre’s inhabitants were transcribed by writers sent out under Roosevelt’s Federal Writer’s Project, with the remit to record oral histories in Depression-era America. Eighty years later, in front of the camera, residents of Barre proudly speak the words of their forefathers.

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