My grandfather was a baker in Cincinnati in the very early 1900s. He and my grandmother owned and operated a neighborhood bakery in the Clifton Heights neighborhood just 400 feet from where I was born ...

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 ...

If you have ever walked in the woods anywhere in New England, you have likely stumbled into an old stone wall and wondered at their purpose and how they were built. This wonder can be satiated at one ...

A well-constructed stone wall can last for centuries. Use that wall to create a terraced surface where a short, steep and dangerous-to-mow grassy slope once lay. A stone wall also makes a nice ...

Artisans around the world are ditching the mortar and embracing an old method of building rock walls Clachtoll Broch, a Scottish dwelling with dry stone walls, was built at least 2,000 years ago. Its ...

Stone wall expert Roberton Thorson will lead a roundtable discussion, workshop, and public lecture in Little Compton, Rhode Island on July 2. Thorson advocates for the preservation of New England's ...