The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry, ...

A slow-motion performance piece that celebrates the art of building dry stone walls nears its final stage at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. A visitor takes a photo of the “Walking Wall” as it curves ...

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The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets, and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere — a latticework of dry, ...

Originally built as barriers between fields and farms, the region’s abandoned farmstead walls have since become the binding threads of its cultural fabric Robert Thorson - Professor of Earth Sciences ...

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How stone salls became prevalent in New England. Stroll through the woods of New England and you’re bound to come across long stretches of stone walls. The historic walls function as more than a ...

Vermont’s stone walls originally served more as “linear landfills” than as a means of enclosing fields, says a University of Connecticut professor. Photo by Craig Michaud Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell ...

Old stone walls are the crafted vertebrae of New England’s outdoors. They were the essential backbone of our long-forgotten sheep industry, which once powerfully impacted both the region’s landscape ...

In Europe they’re a quaintly indelible part of the landscape. In the U.K alone, an estimated 74,000 miles of stone walls, built without mortar or rebar, are etched through the landscape. Forestville ...

Robert M. Thorson created and coordinates the Stone Wall Initiative, an online resource on the historic stone walls of New England. He is an advocate for their conservation and management, and a ...