"Today I went down to the local gravestone vendor to see if I might pick up some
pieces of broken stone. Why wouldn't scraps accumulate from flaws or mishaps in
the ordinary course of cutting and dressing memorial stones? It seemed
reasonable to think I'd be able to pick up some nice pieces of marble and
granite for next to nothing from such discards. And since Mountain View
Cemetery, over a hundred and fifty years old, is not far from my home in
Oakland, that's where I headed."
Richard Whittaker shares more about how his unusual quest unfolded.
