My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many homesteading ... mortar/rubble stone mix on the inside. Most of the “pointing” (mortar troweled into the cracks between ...

Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock ...

(Credit: Robert M. Thorson, CC BY-ND) A typical New England stone wall in Hebron, Conn. The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens ...