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Date:
Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:34:37 EDT
Subject:
Quarries
While I share George Graham's feeling about natural resources, one
thought did occur to me that might make someone conclude that stone
was being desecrated. In an article on the history of the city of
Sylacauga, Alabama, it says that when the Italian sculptor Giuseppe
Moretti came to the city in the early 1900's and sited the white
marble, he was disturbed about the dynamiting of the marble for use in
the steel industry. He immediately sought to encourage the use of the
marble solely for artistic and building purposed. He used a block of
this marble to produce his masterpiece "The Head of Christ."
Today there is a very large industry in which almost all the marble
quarried is ground into a fine powder. This powder used in all sorts
of applications like the coating for paper and as a filler in paints.
Is it sacrilege to crush beautiful marble to coat paper? Perhaps this
is what the attendee meant by desecration.
Archie
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