SFGate

These stone walls stretch across the Bay Area. No one knows where they came from.

The family hiking in front of me under the sweltering South Bay sun had no idea they’d just stopped to tie their shoes on one of the Bay Area’s oldest unsolved mysteries. I couldn’t really blame them: ...
PBS

Stone Walls

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 ...
WBUR

Uncovering the hidden history of New England’s many stone walls

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Picture the Great Wall of China. Now, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Stone Walls Became a Signature Landform of New England

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 ...
Yahoo

New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and deserve a science of their own

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, ...
The Atlantic

The Simple, Ancient Idea That Can Replace Concrete Walls

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 ...
Inverse

Iconic Abandoned Stone Walls Scattered Across New England Contain A Hidden Secret About The Region

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, ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A lost “first wall” section of an ancient city has finally surfaced

A buried stretch of fortification that once guarded ancient Jerusalem has reappeared in the unlikeliest of places, beneath a ...
The Providence Journal

Opinion/Walsh: Reflections on stone walls and chimneys

John Walsh ([email protected]), a monthly contributor, is a partner in the East Greenwich-based communications firm Walsh & Associates. I double-knot my sneakers and start down Third Beach Road in ...
Concord Monitor

Granite Geek: You know what stone walls need? A taxonomy!

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 ...
Irish Central

A history in Ireland's dry stone walls

Cormac MacConnell explores the history, artistry and skill behind Ireland's iconic stone walls and recalls his memories of some of the more wonderful examples throughout his life. There is a young, ...