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Many thanks for your time on the wall! Volunteer Day, the Stone Trust @ the Vermont Granite Museum

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…

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Historic Significance–May 5, 2023

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…

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Ecology of Stone–May 5, 2023

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…

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Notes from the Historic Preservation Working Group, March 2023

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…

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Time on the Wall: Volunteer Day, the Stone Trust @ the Vermont Granite Museum

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…

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UPDATE: Save America’s Treasures Grant Helps Preserve Townshend’s Historic Follett Stone Arch Bridges

Townshend Historical Society

“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…

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