Days 110-111: The last planned stop on our trip was an Aliner rally at Williamstown in eastern Vermont. Ours was one of 35 Aliners camped there. It was a nice time to visit with some friends we had made at last year’s rally and pick up bits of information on Aliner camping.
On Saturday afternoon we took a tour of the large granite quarry operated by the Rock of Ages Corporation. Granite was once extracted there by blasting with black powder—there are huge waste piles of broken rock from those days. Nowadays they carve out huge blocks of granite using precision saws and drills, with very little waste. The “Barre Gray” granite formation is estimated to be large enough to last another 4,500 years!
