In Mike Cockerham’s hometown, I spot granite everywhere. I see a home, a bank, a public library, a post office, and even a few churches built with the chalk-white rock unearthed from the city’s mammoth granite quarry. Mike calls this place home: Mount Airy, nicknamed The Granite City. He tells anyone who asks that he was “born and raised in Mount Airy.” His great-grandfather worked at the quarry…
2025-12-29
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