Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.” One of the illustrations by Edwin Burrage Child for ...

The William Benton Museum of Art’s current exhibition embarks on “The Human Epoch: Living in Anthropocene”. Photo courtesy of the William Benton Museum of Art webpage. Slowly but surely, the William ...

Before the formation of the Vermont Marble Co., most workers in the marble industry of the 1850s and 1860s worked for small companies and lived in company houses of every size and shape. The most ...

CHANCE TO VENTURE INSIDE. ERIKA: WHAT DO HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY HAVE IN COMMON? THE TINY TOWN OF DORSET, VERMONT. THIS IS WHERE ALL THAT STATELY MARBLE CAME FROM. OUR ...

Stacks of marble at the Vermont Marble Company in 1915 (Credit Collection of the Vermont Marble Museum Preservation Trust of Vermont) A crane in the marble quarry in 1910 (Credit Collection of the ...

In 1864, after the channeling machine had been in use at Sutherland Falls Quarry for a year, its inventor, George Jeffards Wardwell began soliciting orders for his machine from other quarries. It was ...