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Many years ago, when I was young and foolish, I decided to build an 80-foot long terrace for fruit trees, and to edge it with a nice fieldstone retaining wall, using stones I could find on my property ...

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...

Last week I wrote about my recent trip to Southern California. I was fortunate to spend time with a dear friend and his wife. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a person who’s more in love with a home ...

Building a wall by precisely stacking randomly shaped boulders could almost be the definition of hard work – both physically and mentally. It's the sort of thing we might want robots to do one day, so ...

The Loudon Historical Society is sponsoring a program titled Discovering New England Stone Walls presented by Kevin Gardner. The program is scheduled for May 15 at 6:30 p.m. The program, free and open ...

A massive 7,000-year-old stone wall has been found underwater off the coast of Brittany. This ancient structure is France's ...

"That's a wonderful feeling for me, to see they are inspired."McAfee is based in Ireland, but said he wanted to be part of an American movement because he senses the same resurgent interest in ...

About 20 years ago, Carl Dill had a stone wall built on a piece of his 16-acre property. Fascinated with the work, he thought he could duplicate it himself. Fast forward to 2004 and the 65-year-old ...

STTE KEVIN GARDNER EXPLAINS HOW EACHTO SNE CONNECTS US TO THE PAST. ♪ THE GREAT AMERICAN POET ROBERT FROST WROTE, "GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS." IF TRUE, FOLKS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SHOULD GET ALONG ...