How It Was Built
The memorial started as rough blocks in a Vermont quarry. The stone was cut, faced and polished, trucked across the country, and raised on the Capitol grounds in Salem. The Foundation photographed the whole thing as it happened, because most of the people paying for it were never going to see the quarry.
Mike Allegre and others took the pictures. What follows is what survived the years the original site was offline.
More of the construction sequence exists in the archive, but only as thumbnails the old site never linked at full size. If you have the originals, or photographs of your own from the build or the dedication, we would like them.