Review; a Working Tribute; Grohmann Honors Labor of 'Man'

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When Eckhart Grohmann was a boy, he watched men extract stone from the east German countryside at quarries his grandfather managed.

Using little more than brute strength and ingenuity, they exposed geological strata and mysteries about Earth's very formation.

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Review; a Working Tribute; Grohmann Honors Labor of 'Man'

He was fascinated, too, by the sculptors who came to the quarries to select stones.

"I saw them chiseling away until finally there was a Maria or a tombstone . . . usually religious things," he says of the artisans' work, which was often done on the spot.

The family's quarry and his father's farm, then in the Silesia region of Germany, now part of Poland, were lost in the World War II, when Grohmann was still very young. Memories of them, though, remain among Grohmann's most ...

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