While landscaping brings greenery to many people’s minds, rocks are an important part of landscaping, too. Perhaps more accurately a hardscaping element, the various types of landscaping rocks add a ...

ENGLAND IS GOOD AT GROWING, IT’S ROCKS. AND IF THOSE ROCKS ARE LUCKY, THEY JUST MIGHT TURN INTO STONES. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A STONE IS THAT A ROCK IS JUST AN UNEMPLOYED STONE BECAUSE A ...

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 ...

There are hundreds of stone walls in Lyme. Stone walls in east Concord. State geologist Rick Chormann and driving force behind the New Hampshire Stone Wall Project looks over a LIDAR readout on the ...

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 ...

Among the colorful troupes of Catalan musicians, dancers, and imaginary figures at the Folklife Festival, one man worked unaccompanied in a corner of the National Mall. As the sole representative of ...

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 ...

Artisans around the world are ditching the mortar and embracing an old method of building rock walls Clachtoll Broch, a Scottish dwelling with dry stone walls, was built at least 2,000 years ago. Its ...

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 ...