005-Walter Grizwold
Wallace Griswold started shift work in 1942. He was a slaker, a process which converts lime to chalk. The job was physical, and he recalls making sixty to eighty trips a day with a wheelbarrow loaded with two-hundred pounds of lime. He held the job for ten to fifteen years, and then he moved to run the turbos that made chalk. He retired in 1976.
"We had a German butcher. ... At lunch we would warm up sausage on the steam pipes. When my father wanted lunch he would throw a stone at the roof of the house, and his mother would put the bag over the fence."
(At that time the Griswold's lived in the company housing at the base of the quarry.)
Wallace Griswold ( Walt ) - Adams, MA
Worked 34 years
Photographed March 27, 1990