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John Everett Benson, who chiseled John F. Kennedy’s grave, has died
The art Benson practiced is mostly devoted to mortality, the brief span of a life, though it is designed for eternity or something close to it. It is often described as the slowest writing in the world. Benson could spend a day carving a cross; a …