I framed two Rockport photos. Flat Ledge Quarry, 1898, and the Long Beach Rodeo, about 1950,
on the Gloucester end of Long Beach.
Productive Day
My View of Life on the Dock
My View of Life on the Dock
I framed two Rockport photos. Flat Ledge Quarry, 1898, and the Long Beach Rodeo, about 1950, on the Gloucester end of Long Beach.
Good Morning Gloucester 
That is a very interesting picture of Flat Ledge Quarry, Fred. Thanks for sharing it.
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Love the horse on Long Beach
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Excellent work – here mom should known the second one I will have to ask her – Rockport one is really neat lot’s of tracks in those days from what I was told…As kids we were told stories about Blood ledge hence the name! – took a while to go in the water there…:-) Dave & Kim
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My grandfather worked in the Rockport quarries. I have heard stories about the stone cutters who worked there, but have never seen pictures. Thank you for sharing the photo.
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I forgot this one of those moments lost a legend on the quarries in BARBARA ERKKILA, RIP… (God bless here she was a very special person to us kids)!! She lived up on high street I know her well her dog (Chow) as soon as she let him out of house came to ours on Washington Street on the back porch and loved us kids playing with him. She come and pick him up bring him back.
Someone sent me this Obit partial only!!
Her second book in 1989 Village at Lanes Cove featured the fishermen, granite quarries, artists, sculptors, and writers of this Gloucester village. She flew to Scotland to investigate how their quarries worked as well as the machines and tools for her next now unfinished book. When engineers sought to repair the Holland Tunnel in New York they needed to match the original granite used, Barbara was the one who correctly directed them to Blood Ledge Quarry in Gloucester. Her love of the local granite led her to the creation of pendants and earrings of polished cabochons and tumbled chunks hammered on her front steps with a hammer. In 1999 the Gloucester Cultural Commission honored her with the first Walker Hancock award. The millennium year of 2000 was the event of her second marriage to Ashton Ricker. Both in their 80s, they reunited with a wedding story published on the front page of The Boston Globe on Valentines Day, February 14, 2000. Both were Red Sox fans.
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