My husband is a very good stone mason. He did the exterior front of the hall and base of the platform inside using some really nice stone that was purchased by the Hall. He spent alot of time on it, and it turned out beautifully, in spite of "help" he received. Then he was told he could buy the left over stone! After all the work he did, work that would have cost a fortune out in the real world....Anyway, I drive by it almost every day, thinking how ironic it is that most of the people in the hall now have no idea who did the stone work.
Kat