North Bennington’s Bennington Marble and Granite starts and ends with family – Bennington Banner
BENNINGTON — There’s a small, finishuring father-and-son enterprise located on a quiet, gravel road on the outskirts of North Bennington that does factors The biggest method Vermont Is understood for — palms-on from Start To finish.
Bennington Marble and Granite has been On The identical location For many years, Solely a duo with no completely different staff, in an unassuming pole barn subsequent to their house, the place they reduce, type, polish and create lovely kitchen counter tops and tasks from A pair of of In all probability the Most cute, distinctive, pure and engineered stone On the earth. Bennington Marble and Granite imports its stone from almost every state and nation throughout the globe, from native marble from Vermont to The very Highest extreme quality Brazilian granite and soapstone, and All by way of the place in between.
“My father emigrated to America Inside the late ’60s when he was about 14,” John Cicirello Jr. says. “They acquired here from Calabria, Italy, Definitely one of 13 youthfulsters. All of the lads in his househprevious have been Inside the trades of some type or The completely different. Masons, woodstaff, farmers. My dad labored A lot of jobs earlier than we opened this place.”
As a youthful man, John Cicirello Sr. labored odd jobs down in Connectireduce, the place the househprevious first landed, as a manufacturing unit worker at an meeting plant, landscaping, a stone mason For a few years, constructing stone partitions and patios, and carrying cement for a “imply, previous Italian” immigrant, Pasquale Vento, who was A troublesome, perfectionist boss, however taught him Tons about working with stone.
“Eighty-years previous, however might nonetheless kick my ass,” John Sr. says with a wink and a chuckle.
“My father used that on …….
