Hundered Years of Hands

A cathedral teaches a man to think in centuries. No one who lays the first stone lives to see the roof finished. The work is never done — only handed on.For sixty years Tom Hale gave his hands to Aldermere Cathedral. As a half-orphaned boy, he was apprenticed to the formidable Master Crale, who taught him to read stone the way other men read faces. As an old master mason, he risked everything to s...