ovelist Kate Manning has kept a photograph of 100 men wearing funny hats in her office for years. The panorama is a group shot from the 1915 National Retail Monument Dealers convention in Marble, and Manning’s great-grandfather was among the attendees. According to family lore, pickax-wielding J.F. Manning helped quarry marble for the Lincoln Memorial., out on November 1—while also forcing the writer to reckon with her family’s past.
