CAM Talk: 100 years in 20 Minutes—The Story of Granite Quarrying on Cape Ann, by Monica Lawton

Name: CAM Talk: 100 years in 20 Minutes—The Story of Granite Quarrying on Cape Ann, by Monica Lawton
Start: 2026-01-10T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Cape Ann Museum Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA

Sat, 10 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm UTC-05:00

Cape Ann Museum Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA | Gloucester

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$CAM Talk: 100 years in 20 Minutes\u2014The Story of Granite Quarrying on Cape Ann, by Monica Lawton$

CAM Talk: 100 years in 20 Minutes—The Story of Granite Quarrying on Cape Ann, by Monica Lawton
Saturday, January 10, 2026
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Janet & William Ellery James Center, CAM Green
13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Free for CAM members, $10 for Non-Members.
Registration is required as space is limited: https://www.capeannmuseum.org/event/story-of-granite-quarrying-cape-ann-monica-lawton/
Learn about Cape Ann’s Granite Industry with photographs and stories about the people, places and events that helped shape the communities over a one-hundred-year period.
After four decades in non-profit and association management, primarily in the legal and construction realm, Monica Lawton now volunteers for several organizations and Rockport town committees, and manages her husband’s maritime art business. She shares her love of the outdoors as a leader of Sunday morning hikes through the woods and quarry lands of Cape Ann; and her love of history as a docent and tour guide at the Cape Ann Museum. A North Shore native, she has lived in Rockport for over 25 years.

Image Credit: Jones R.E., November 03 1921. Rockport Granite Co., flat ledge or upper pit. Photograph. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum. Gift of Barbara Erkkila, 1999 [1999.24].