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Archive Home > 2010 > February > 07 > Earl Barthe was master of plaster

Earl Barthe was master of plaster

By New York Times News Service / The Bulletin
February 7, 2010

Earl Barthe said that plastering and music “sort of rhyme.” Perched on a scaffold, he would burst into arias from “Carmen” or growl like Muddy Waters when installing a ceiling medallion.

“Curves,” Barthe said, “are conducive to the blues.”

A fifth-generation plasterer, the man known as Mr. B.....

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