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, ...

When I was a kid living in southern New Hampshire, my family home was on the site of an abandoned farmstead consisting of massive stone foundations of quarried granite where dwellings once stood.

STTE KEVIN GARDNER EXPLAINS HOW EACHTO SNE CONNECTS US TO THE PAST. ♪ THE GREAT AMERICAN POET ROBERT FROST WROTE, "GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS." IF TRUE, FOLKS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SHOULD GET ALONG ...

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 ...

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 ...

A local stone wall located on the edge of a field, each stone placed by a Yankee farmer well over a century ago. Credit: James W. Spain / For the Monitor Sit with me upon my stone wall under this ...

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, ...

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STONES FOR PEACE: Local mason Jill Haynie pieced together the stories, stones and offerings of many people to make the prayer wall she built for Unity of the Blue Ridge. Photo by Mindi Meltz Friedwald ...