10 Quotes by John Swenson

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    I have maps and lots of pictures, ... of what was there. So I frequently conduct tours. There's a lot to see if you know where to look.

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    Over 300 stonecutters worked there in the summer, ... during its heyday. Many lived in the barracks on the site. The permanent people lived in homes in Redstone.

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    The reason I got involved, ... is that my family is in the granite business. Swenson and (The H.E.) Fletcher (Company) owned Redstone for 43 years, after the Great Depression.

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    Once the ground gets saturated, we get slides. We're just trying to dry out and get ready for the next one.

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    They took a wallet, they took credit cards, they opened up my gun safe, they took the guns out, they pulled ammo out of there.

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    There were railroad spurs. You can see remnants of the boiler, compressor is still there, a giant lathe where they turned the columns on,

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    It is unusual to see two distinct colors there so close together: green and pink,

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