Robert Thorson stands atop a wall of lichen-covered stones, round ones upon square ones upon flat ones. Miles and miles of such walls stretch across Connecticut’s landscape like the seams of a ...

John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he was living in Ontario, working for clients who wanted decorative stone ...

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, ...

—This is the first in a series of articles on how you can enhance your walks in nature. That walk in the woods really rocked. That’s what you’ll be saying if you look at stone walls as more than just ...

Stone walls have purpose, personality and permanence. Historically, their purpose was to contain livestock, define boundaries and serve as convenient storage for the many rocks removed from fields to ...

EGREMONT -- Paul Montgomery has a knack -- and a bit of an obsession -- for building classic New England stone walls. Since March, the 61-year-old homeowner has strenuously and meticulously placed ...

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 ...

In a changing landscape, New England's old stone walls stand as the most visible and unique reminder of our agricultural past. But people have increasingly been poaching on that past, including in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert M. Thorson, University of Connecticut (THE CONVERSATION) The abandoned ...