“Above, the Spirit, and below, the Rock” – Goethe –
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Dedication Page to- BREAK: Stone, Water, Heart
Revised Release Date for BREAK: Stone, Water, Heart
BREAK: Stone, Water, Heart REVISED release date. – March 15, 2014.
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I spent November 2013 in research at the Harvard Baker Library, pouring over the Rockport Granite Collection. The materials hosted there are detailed and extensive, portraying the daily life of the Rockport Granite Company as a business, as it grew and changed business directions at the turn of the 20th century. The struggles of labor and unions are carefully documented and preserved – from 1886 to 1924. Additionally there is a volume of reports and statistics which offer a peek into the daily life, at all levels, of quarrying on Cape Ann.
I have needed to take extra time to allow myself to reflect on what I have found and to incorporate it appropriately. I thank everyone for interest and eagerness to see the boo and hold it in hand.
There is a lot at stake.
Leslie Bartlett, December 16, 2013 9:00am
Presence defined by Absence
For Weights of Blood
Granite farms.
For swaying breaths
Granite bridges.
For a watering eye
Granite walls
Granite headstones
For what is lost
For what adheres
To the lip’s stir
As to the granite
A hand’s shadow.
Granite oblations
Propped on the summit
For faceless prescence
By soft-hand absence.
– Ted Hughes –
Awed to Heaven
Historic Lanes Cove Photographs Printed and On Display
Please walk by the old Firehouse in Lanesville. Right now I have a 3 ft by 5 ft window size display
of images which would make great seasonal gift and connecting back to our history. I’ll be adding comments upon the images
a little later today.
Here is what the display is made up of:
Gently Lay Your Stone Hammer Down…
Gently lay your stone hammer down
And walk the gorse and hickories,
Over scratched moraines.
Tuck down on Babson’s Sunset Rock,
Westward the sun settles
Eastward
Returning shadows.
Feel the light of new horizons.
Hither and there, pounded words,
A Scatter of blunted chisels.
Up from the quarry floor
A new tool boy climb ups
His ladder to the blacksmith shop.
Gently lay your stone hammer down.
Break: Stone Water Heart 