On a cool, moist, overcast Friday, we combined the July 17 Introduction to Dry Stone Walling and Contractors Intro into one workshop taught by Pete Ryder and Andras Lazar. Needless to say, walling experience among the 10 participants encompassed a large range from none to minimal to decades. For one woman who recently joined a…
You may recall that on July 4 a group of instructors volunteered to build new walls, so we can teach walling while accommodating social distance. One week later, on July 11, The Stone Trust hosted our first workshop since the moratorium began at the end of March. During the Introduction to Dry Stone Walling workshop,…
Last Wednesday Brian Post, Jared Flynn, and I met at The Stone Trust Center in Dummerston, Vermont to review plans to incorporate social distancing into our workshop instruction. Scott Renault, the new General Manager of Scott Farm where our many of our workshops take place, joined us. It takes us all to assure that we…
Dear friends of The Stone Trust, We want to update you about travel to Vermont and to apprise you of changes in our July workshop formats necessary to create conditions for health safety. Please understand that we are working with the most recent information available to us. As you know, changes happen almost daily. We…
