Blog – The Stone Trust

Posted on August 13, 2019 August 15, 2019

Two days of walling at the Vermont Granite Museum (July 27 & 28, 2019)

On July 27th and 28th, our first full-curriculum 2-Day Introductory Workshop was held at the Vermont Granite Museum in Barre, VT. Over the course of two days, our small group of 6 participants and 2 instructors stripped out and rebuilt nearly 20ft of wall!

Posted on August 5, 2019 August 15, 2019

Lots of enthusiasm at the 2-Day Intro in MN! (Aug. 3&4, 2019)

On August 3rd and 4th, the 2-Day Introductory workshop was held at Northland Landscape Nursery in Minnesota, for the first time. The participants had a great time learning the fundamentals and showed their enthusiasm working with challenging stone.

Posted on August 5, 2019 August 5, 2019

Wassaic Charcoal Kilns

While down giving a presentation about stone walls and foundations at the Timber Framer’s Guild Conference in Manchester New Hampshire last weekend, Mason Lord an attendee, shared some amazing photos of the Wassaic Charcoal Kilns (also referred to as furnaces or pits). These stone structures are of the corbeled beehive type but their large size…

Posted on August 5, 2019 August 15, 2019

Master Class: Random Walling: Part 2

Thank you to Sean Adcock for allowing us to provide this content. He starts “In case you hadn’t noticed, Masterclass when not dealing with incredibly rare requests tends to be about something I have been recently working on. This current “random” series was sparked off by some such process.

Posted on July 30, 2019 August 15, 2019