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Pete Kruckewitt, Marble Mason Foreman, 30 years
I love problem solving and being creative. You show up and they give you a boxful of stones and a bunch of plans, and you figure out how to make it work and make everybody happy.
On this job we’re working on a cathedral for the archdiocese. I was raised Catholic, so working on a church is a real treat. These are pieces of granite cut like bricks. When you are working with stone, you have to be exact. Once you screw up, that’s it for that stone, and it’s not like you can stop at the hardware store on the way home and get another one.
My father was a marble mason, and he started taking me to jobs when I was 5 years old. The trade hasn’t change much since his time. I’m sure if he were alive today, he could walk right onto the job and tell me how I wasn’t doing it right
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