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| | Barre, Vt. - New York Times |
 | | Barre, where tourists gawk at the world's largest active granite quarry and stone carvers helped shape the National World War II Memorial, has built a lively city on a rocky base. |
 | | Blue-collar Barre (population 9,291) is a union stronghold with a radical past, where immigrants from Scotland, Sweden, Spain, France, Italy, Quebec and elsewhere came to excavate, sculpt and ship the granite. |
 | | Elia Corti, who was Barre's leading stone carver in 1903, when he died from a gunshot wound after a meeting between anarchists and socialists turned violent, appears posed a bit like "The Thinker" but wearing a three-piece suit and two-toned shoes. |
| www.nytimes.com /2005/08/12/travel/escapes/12hour.html?ex=1281499200&en=6dfc420eccdf5ff0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (968 words) |
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