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P)acteder-viyled:ed36-ffi-u3trthsal«yheci-«1-cm-in-cem-Just as most of Pine Grove’s men have been stonemasons, most of its families have been Episcopalians — because of an evangelical mountain bishop ahalf-century ago.One of the most appropriate testaments to the skills of the hollow's masons is the solid, native-stone St. George’s Episcopal Church that stands halfway up the hollow.Both the spacious church, built in 1932, and an adjacent parish hall, built only a few years ago, came from the stones of the hollow and the skills of its people.After Sunday services and during everyday meetings in the hollow, stonework and its decline are conversation topics.In simple words, the hollow’s men vividly portray their years of hard work with nature’s strongest materials.Their sturdy hands move as they talk and seem to be made for the steel mallet and chisel they have held for so many years. When these hands are covered with the gray dust of shattered stone, they seem to he made from the same materialty,inm-le-ur-la-Lt.seaic-Cato,heofthey shape.Anyone can be a stonemason if they slay at it, observes mason Gilbert Gray.“It’s just plain hard work, notes Ivan Pettit, who has been a mason 30 years, .The hard .work comes not-only from hefting stone into place, but from the tediqus shaping and the creating of small building stones from boulders that range up to six feet. ’ -Pettit nqtes i thkt an average house can take over two months to sheath with stone — even in unbroken good weather.
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Danville Register
Danville, Virginia, US
Fri, Mar 26, 1971
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