Marjorie Hunt

A celebration of American craftsmanship, occupational traditions, the beauty of our built environment, and the importance of Good Work. Those profiled include Scots-American decorative painters restoring the ceiling of Trinity Church in Boston and Mexican-American terra cotta workers restoring a Chicago skyscraper, a stone mason and stained glass craftsman maintaining Washington National Cathedral, a Creole plasterer in New Orleans and a Hispanic adobe builder in New Mexico, an ornamental iron blacksmith from Virginia, and the New England stone carver who created the lettering on the World War II Memorial in Washington.

A look at some of the last stone carvers working in the United States, those completing the sculptures adorning the Washington National Cathedral. They discuss their craft and the cultural forces which helped define it, as well as the fading use of stone ornamentation in architecture and the history of stone carving, and they tour the cathedral to point out the history behind some of the work.