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 barrier. A geologist says they unite the region in a ...

Originally built as barriers between fields and farms, the region’s abandoned farmstead walls have since become the binding threads of its cultural fabric Robert Thorson | Professor of Earth Sciences ...

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 ...

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