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encehuttimeters.firstwasithertheliv-Sray then, i by i the a. A sup-^idge ? the tone-Some stone you have to get the feel of for a few days,*' explains Gilbert Gray. “About the third day you can do much more than the first, my dad used to say.”Charles Gray adds, “You can take good rock and make it do what you want it to. Lots of people just throw it in the wall, but I Jike to cut it to fit.”To the Grays, WeakJeys and Pettits, the art of creating an orderly pattern or an attractive nonpattern from a hodgepodge of rock is “just a knack — it comes naturally.”The stonemasons explain thew.drop in their numbers very simply.“The work is too hard. The pay has always been really good, but you just can’t get young fellows to do this kind of work,” explains veteran mason Ernest Weakley.Shirley Gray says “Stonerwork can be right tough sometimes, but I like it.“There’s a real sense of accomplishment in it.”“But there ain’t nobody taking it up now,” Pettit adds. “Stone houses are picking up. There’s plenty of stone work around — just no masons.”
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Danville Register
Danville, Virginia, US
Fri, Mar 26, 1971
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