At 'This Place in History,' we're in Barre with Executive Director of the Vermont Historical SocietySteve Perkins. "We're behind the Old Labor Hall on Granite Street in Barre and we're going to be talking history and bread and an incredible new project that the Barre Historical Society is putting on. We're going to go inside and see Carolyn Shapiro, Project Director on this unique construction," introduced Perkins.
"This was the bakery that was built by the Italian granite workers in 1913 because they realized they had a small bakery in the Old Labor Hall, but they weren't able to do enough bread. So they got the building permit of October of 1913 and in about six months they had this built. It's taken us about six years to get all the grants and the money and the construction happening," began Shapiro.
