More Stonecutters Facts
There are, in fact, real Stonecutters organizations. For example,
The Journeyman Stonecutters Association of North America, one of the oldest
unions of
North America. Their jobs: sculpting the columns, ornaments and
gargoyles decorating traditional buildings of the 19th and early 20th century. Today these kind of ornaments have fallen out of fashion.
Trivia: Stonecutters served as body guards to Abraham Lincoln's 1861 inauguration, pity they were absent at Ford's Theater...