Cover illustration by Meredith Nemirov de Anchondo.
First published in the United States by Bruce Publishing Company (Milwaukee, WI, 1949)
Summary
Taking place in the years before World War II, the granite workers of Barre, Vermont are observed and described by Mr. Tiff, the immigrant school teacher. He watches as the people around him live through birth, marriage, and death, never speaking of their fear or the hard granite dust that kills the men who make their living in the sheds.