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Show ! alone, three intricate reliefs and eight statues remain to be carved, along with thousands of ! i I I ; . architectural details some 30 years of carving for one man A fund shortage will probably leave only one carvers or two for the big projects. As for apprentices who might one day carry on this age-olcraft, the cathedral has none. Its a vicious circle, full-tim- e d It Huge i Moiigi puts imi'Jiiimtnuc In sou the SION1 C V Ii hand ol Vrl.mi lu hue the statue is pi. nul on the est I, k ade l tin Washington C athedial I lie plaster Hindi fm Ins statue stands in hat k t i iglit is St t Ilian, hit h Woi up i i el hit the lathed) a s south poi lal in 1 (X I W 01 k on tin stone lanopv aho e the st itue alone took si months. iuh uniinished than completed in poured concrete. Morigi shares Fellers disdain for the lack of them woulu . qualified to work on the cathedral. And in Europe, the traditional breeding ground of stone workers, carvers are scarce, too. If the qualified stone carvers disappear before the cathedral is done, those would would take wooden wagon wheels would cut stone over needs them. nobody such with are crudity that Although there 'd I over of turn in my grave perhaps hundreds stone carvers in the and the architect would country, Feller said that turn over in his, Feller no more than eight of said. I'd rather see it explained Richard '1 teller, the cathedral's clerk of the works. We have no apprentices because theres no future in this type of carving after the cathedral is completed. Its really a dying craft. It's like learning to make craftsmanship displayed in modern buildings. When I look at something, I want to feel elated, said. Morigi The new condominiums they look as alike as a bunch of soldiers. I bet a lot of people miss their houses when they go home at night. 1 I " J 11 t I one by Barbara S. Moffet National Geographic News Service When Roger Morigi laid down his stone carving tools, the Washington Cathedral and the world lost one of the few remaining masters of a dying craft. Morigi, master stone carver at the cathedral in Washington, D. C., has retired after a career of nearly 60 years, but not before performing one last act: the creation of triumph of Morigis skill in reproducing sculpture in stone. Stone carvers today generally copy in stone what has been created in plaster by a sculptor. When complete, the stone version should be identical to the sculptors original. Each sculptor has his own technique, and the carver has to interpret that, Morigi told the ... became a U. S. citizen and a journeyman carver. He went on to adorn some of the nations best-know- n Despite his long carving experience, the effervescent Morigi has retained the enthusiasm of stone carver father to the United States in the wave of craftsmen who emigrated from Italy affer World War I. Arriving in New York in 1927, eager but ignorant of American ways 4 &" & A "T JT . Times-New- s Nephi, Utah J u v 27, I downhill You always have to feel you could learn a little more today, a little more tomorrow. Morigi's retirement an apprentice. In carving, you learn he said every day, Just as in any professional craft, if you get up one morning and think you know it all, you might well as because y adds suspence to the question of whether the nations dwindling supply of qualified carvers the complete elaborately designed cathedral, the sixth can mm. .MS ) I'' largest in the world. On the west facade quit youre going , END-OF-SEASO- CLOSE-OUT- ! FEDOERS AIR CONDITIONERS v ni a . Wif , ! ; From 129 479 Ji July Sale at Christensen's Goodbye Prices effective Thursday thru Monday 4000 BTU TO 14,000 i i i COOL SAVINGS ON only ! N I Lovable Bras d 1. . 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LEE Boys Canvas fl P3 A A Converse - LaCrosse, Etc. HP Ass't styles & sizes. Values to $13.00 Pair off Nephi .pt rv limestone, he hammered out imposing statutes of Christ, saints, and secular figures. His carving of the Last Supper, completed in 1959, is framed by 44 distinctly different angels that bear testimony to the more than five jears he spent on a scaffold on the cathedrals south portal with two longtime associates, Frank Zic and Ed Ratti The tbm carvooig (I couldnt say yessoonin English), Morigi Geographic Society. A lot of carvers I tell do this the sculptor, I am just a tool in your hands. Morigi, now 70, tackled his first block of stone as an apprentice in Milan at the age of 11. He later followed his cant ? W k another stone, usually Indiana represents vT exmpy j buildings, inU. 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