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 ...

All Things Considered is taking listeners on a tour of the best swimming holes in the country — including one in Dorset, Vt., where an old marble quarry now attracts swan divers and belly floppers.

DORSET, Vt. (NEWS10) – Vermont State Police positively identified the body recovered from First Marble Quarry Wednesday morning as 21-year-old Hadil Marzouq. The cause of death was ruled a drowning.

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 ...

The Francis Slason quarry opened in 1830 in West Rutland. It was worked for a short time, closed, then was re-opened a half century later by the Standard Marble Co. Marble Minutes is designed to share ...

Two workmen are standing by several steam boilers close to a set of steps leading down to the quarry. A flatbed railroad car is on tracks close to the quarry, and there is a windowless shed to the ...

Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...

For almost two decades most of Arlington National Cemetery’s row after row of gleaming, standing white marble headstones have come from one Vermont quarry. Granite Industries, the company that makes ...

Dorset, VT: The Town That Marble Made 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 ...