Seven wallers joined the crew last Saturday to help almost double the linear feet of the existing instructional wall. Site champions Alex Hoffmeier, Jordan Keyes, and Jake McArdle had prepped the site, laying out the material for Saturday in advance, so people could show up and throw a wall together. Unable to attend the volunteer…
Many communities express interest in preserving their historic landmarks, an endeavor which inevitably requires dry stone walling expertise. If you have a preservation project in mind, please be in touch. The Wall Still Stands: Burgess Cemetery, Grafton, Vermont Karen Jarret, who leads the Stone Trust’s Historic Preservation Working Group, came across the above postcard, which…
Friends of the Stone Trust increasingly explore the ways dry stonework creates positive impacts on the landscape–urban, rural, and suburban. Reduced carbon emissions, habitat creation to protect biodiversity, water management, durable, culturally apt transportation infrastructure… Please be in touch with your thoughts regarding “dry stone as a resource in a contemporary approach (http://pierreseche-international.org/en/).” Modern Crevice…
Participant at work during our Dutton Farm Historic Wall Preservation workshop from 2022. Our 2023 preservation workshop at Dutton Farm is opening for sign-ups now. What’s uppermost in many preservationists’ minds? Who is going to carry on once we’re gone? Needed and noble professions potentially heading towards extinction Much has been written lately about the…
Hello, my name is Michael Morrone. I am the owner of an excavation company in Rhode Island. I currently build retaining walls built with large boulders. I am looking to purchase a wedge style lifting anchor–a Lewis Lifting Appliance– used in a drilled hole within the boulders. I am told that they were used in…
You’re Invited for Walling and a Museum Tour! Where: The Stone Trust Training Center at the Vermont Granite Museum When: Saturday April 22 and/or Sunday April 23, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please join Stone Trust site champions and instructors Jordan Keyes, Alex Hoffmeier, and Jake McArdle to help with the continued build out of key…
“I would like to be part of a network of individuals near me with similar interests.” –Workshop Participant, The Stone Trust Pennsylvania Friends in walling live far and wide, so you may not be familiar with others who share your love for designing and building with stone. The Stone Trust wants to connect you, to…
“Townshend Historical Society has been awarded a $221,000 Save America’s Treasures grant from the national Historic Preservation Fund. Together with a matching sum raised by the Historical Society and Town of Townshend, the grant will partly fund restoration of the West Townshend Stone Arch Bridge. It is to be administered by the National Park Service…
HELP WANTED – Waller Positions Available -When you employ dry stone wallers, you connect the art and craft of dry stone walling to an economic foundation in local communities. When you offer your services as a dry stone waller, you bring your knowledge and skill to life on a job site. Thanks to employers and…
