Cousin checked in, and she's got several people gathering stuff from all sides of town. She said I'll have quite a box of supplies to work with. It's an exciting project! A fellow artistic friend has also offered to help.
I plan on taking the courthouse marble crumbles, tumbling and polishing them into round beads, then engraving "Hope" or "Future" on them in Latin, and using them as links on suncatchers.