WESTERLY – John Washburn was 6 years old when his father, a stonemason, first taught him to mix cement. Now, 33 years later – and a stonemason himself – Washburn is putting that knowledge and decades ...

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 ...

Leaning over a metal rail in a brown shirt jacket and work jeans, Kevin Gardner of Hopkinton quietly considered the half-built wall at his feet as he’d done time and time again over the past 45 years.

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.

In a changing landscape, New England's old stone walls stand as the most visible and unique reminder of our agricultural past. But people have increasingly been poaching on that past, including in ...

GRANITE QUARRY – Just beyond the stairs at Granite Lake Park, some retaining walls are in poor shape. One of the masonry retaining walls is broken down and caved in, another on ground level is leaning ...