John Swenson Quotations

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.

Our crews had a very busy weekend. A little relief would be nice.

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.

Remnants of the stone shed where they did the finishing work, ... the foundation is there.

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.

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

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.

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

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

In the Valley is where it always hits pretty hard.