Day: September 20, 2009

The Joy of Soapstone

Last night I read about a hike scheduled for today to a now defunct soapstone quarry on Bear Mountain. I love soapstone. Dad always had it around and made cool things with it: lamps mostly, and an elaborate tunneled mountain about 18 inches tall for my brother’s snakes to crawl in. Whenever one of my pet mice died, he’d give me a piece to carve for a gravestone. I still have Minute Mouse’s headstone from […]

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