Stone retaining walls add elegance to your lawn while stabilizing sloped terrain. If you're worried about the cost, here's ...

My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many homesteading skills, came unexpectedly, urgently, and at the wrong time. It was a rare clear morning during a rainy spring in ...

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 ...

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.

MEANWHILE, UP IN VERMONT, THE HEAVY, HUMBLE CRAFT OF DRY STONE WALL BUILDING HAS TAKEN FLIGHT EVOLVING INTO REALMS OF ART AND PURE IMAGINATION. TONIGHT, A SURVEY AND CELEBRATION OF NEW ENGLAND’S ...

Wadsworth also hopes there will be a repeat of the 1937 experiment—building and setting fire to a model stone wall, applying the knowledge they’ve acquired in the lab. “I certainly would ...

Many of New England’s stone walls were initially constructed to deal with a problem: An excess of pesky stones in the soil. ... “These folks would build [stone] walls to their specification.

Casting Out the Post-Contact Stone Wall Building Myth for the American Northeast.” Author Matt Bua will share insights from his research on the origins of the well-known local stone walls.