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Old 03-21-2016, 02:53 PM
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It's very common to be cremated and still have an actual memorial erected whether you are interred with the memorial or scattered elsewhere. It has a lot to do with the individual and the family. The process of memorialization has as much, if not more, to do with those who don't pass as with the one who did.

Dad wanted a significant memorial including a text panel on the back telling as much about his father and mother's life as internationally renowned dairy farmers as his own. He wanted a stone highlighting what I can do that nearly all claim to now be a lost art, as I was trained to do by my mother's side of the family. So dad wrote it all years ago, even helped me with the stones before he died. The larger stone also serves to denote the family plot. All of this made Dad happy, for himself, his brothers and his parents.

If it makes you happy, a bottle of whiskey or split between the harbor & dragstrip are both just as appropriate.
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Old 03-21-2016, 03:36 PM
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It really doesn't have to be a memorial. A couple of Gargoyles, dogs, a man holding a body hammer in one hand and snips in another (like my favorite Dutch Comstock tee shirt), etc. to set by the entrance to your driveway would be a another way to go.
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Old 03-21-2016, 07:15 PM
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My mother was Scottish and very superstitious so the idea of a memorial before you're dead would have appalled her. And interesting to see the different thoughts on it. But whatever the consensus, both the English Wheel and the stonework are of the highest quality so if it comes down to intrinsic value I guess it's a fair enough deal.

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Old 03-21-2016, 08:21 PM
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Your compliments are much appreciated. Thank you, Bill. It's a small world.

My great grandfather came over from Aberdeen, Scotland in March 1891 and cut granite in Barre, VT until he died around 1940. I've got the photo album he brought with him on the boat, given to him by his "fellow employees on St Paul Street", right here by my desk. The family name is Melvin, of the clan Gordon.

His son (my maternal grandfather) came over in 1906 through Ellis Island and cut granite in Barre, VT until 1965. I've got his original formal indentureship contract from 1919 when he started in the sheds for $3/day and his tool chest from when he retired. He cut his parent's stone, as well as his own stone before he died. My grandfather never encouraged us to follow into stone, but I apprenticed under a cousin, actually from my maternal grandmother's French-Canadian side. Ma says he would still be proud.

Jim- it isn't a metalworker, but my cousin carved this monument to the Italians stonecutters in Barre, VT holding a hammer and hand point, with figure 12'+, approx 23' overall.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ital...J2-U8uXwE_M%3A kinda big for a private home installation... One of my Masters, Giuliano Cecchinelli, did the model for that job http://carolinasculpturestudio.com/w...P4f3w60_57.jpg and is sculptor of record. My cousin and his Master Phil Paini used compasses and methods like I demonstrated at Redneck Roundup to enlarge Giuliano's model to cut that stone. That's who taught me.
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Old 03-21-2016, 09:14 PM
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Clint that is impressive work. The one with the woman standing on her memorial stone really caught my attention. One would never wonder who was buried there.
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Old 03-21-2016, 10:09 PM
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Clint that is impressive work. The one with the woman standing on her memorial stone really caught my attention. One would never wonder who was buried there.
The memorial of little Margaret Pitkin (The one with the portrait statue of the young girl at the fence rail) is in Green Mountain Cemetery in Montpelier, VT near Barre where it was carved years ago. She was run over by a wagon, I think. Big lesson with that one is that after installation, the family noticed a button missing on one of her boots and complained vigorously to the sculptor about the "mistake" he had tried to sneak by them. So he took out his magnifying glass and the pic they gave him to use for the job to show them the button missing on the statue was missing in the picture as well. So they apologized because he had been completely accurate.....

The modified race car memorial to Joey LaQuerre on the image pages was also carved by my same cousin Andy Hebert. Joey raced a lot in central VT but was killed when he wrecked his snow machine. That stone gets a lot of coverage, but rarely is it credited to him
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