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I started to draw at the age of seven while sitting in front of the family television set watching an Art Program. I became fascinated with what I could draw. My parents saw promise in my drawings and encouraged me to continue. I never suspected then that it would become my life's work. Perhaps they did.

At the age of seventeen, I was hired as an apprentice at a local granite manufacturing plant through a work program with our local High School. I became a journeyman Monumental Draftsman in 1973 after having served my three year apprenticeship. Being born and raised in Barre, I was inspired by many artisans in the Granite industry and also by the display of their work in Hope Cemetery. Hope Cemetery is our local cemetery and it contains enough good work that it is a little like walking through an outdoor museum.

There were three very important people who influenced and helped me to develop my talent: my art teacher, Charles Bohn, my Monumental Drafting teacher, Ray Leslie and Pewee Fontana who was the head Draftsman at a local granite manufacturing plan where I started my career.

I established Dindo Drafting in 1979. It has always been my goal to produce the finest drawings, because I know that my art work will be displayed throughout the country on a stone that will have everlasting beauty and meaning to family, friends and loved ones.

Our business is owned and operated by my wife and myself in our home. We are a small, yet powerful business with the newest technology. I have been in business now for over twenty three years and I believe that in our albums of designs we have selected work that will help everyone in choosing a memorable memorial to cherish to the end of time.

Yours very truly,

Charles M. Dindo
Dindo Drafting