Sentences with phrase «of granite monuments»

Outside, you can pay tribute to surfing greats memorialized in a slew of granite monuments at the Surfing Walk of Fame.

Elberton is locally known as The Granite City due to its mass production of granite monuments.

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Speaking in between hymns and sermons urging people to accept Jesus, the embattled Senate candidate dismissed the allegations as an effort to derail his rise to the Senate and end his political career that included an effort to halt same - sex marriage in the state and install a granite Ten Commandments monument in the lobby of the state appellate courthouse.

A few summers ago, while taking an afternoon off from a story I was working on in the Flint Hills of Kansas, I stopped on the road near a stout granite monument that marked a set of wheel ruts disappearing northwest across the plains.

Leading the nation in production of marble, monument granite, and maple syrup, tourism also holds a significant role in the economy of the state.

She also explores how traditional monument - making can be translated into new contemporary models of commemoration, substituting the traditional marble and granite for new media.

Certainly the ebony - toned iron of the maquette bears a solemnity appropriate to that grim association, as in Lorenzo Pace's similarly themed dark granite monument, Triumph of the Human Spirit (2000), downtown on Foley Square.

About 1980, some forward thinking people erected a granite monument near here with some advice for survivors or whoever cares to read these words of advice: (In 8 modern languages and 4 ancient ones:

Tourists can take advantage of several historical sites, including the Adams National Historical Park, the Quincy Historical Society, the U.S. Naval Shipbuilding Museum, the Granite Railway, and several other statutes and monuments.