The question arose: What granite is it, and where might one find it? The archives cited a stone called Sherwood pink. RAMSA hired a company called Swenson Stone Consultants to investigate. Malcolm Swenson, the president, had a hunch, and checked his much-thumbed copy of “The Commercial Granites of New England,” an encyclopedic guide published in 1923. Further sleuthing traced this particular pink to an abandoned quarry near Stonington, Maine, on a two-hundred-acre pile of igneous rock called Crotch Island.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter