John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he was living in Ontario, working for clients who wanted decorative stone ...

HOLYOKE — When Mike Dugre, 69, began considering his legacy, he went back 400 million years for inspiration. That’s how old some of the granite is that he used to build the dry stone wall on his ...

Some find solace in the physical feel of stone. Some claim it speaks to them. The permanence of stone is legendary: A sword cannot be drawn from it; a mythical Greek monarch defines futility by ...

The robotics experts at ETH Zurich have developed an autonomous excavator that uses advanced AI to help it complete high-skill tasks without a human operator. Dry stone wall construction typically ...

Did you know that Croatia is home to one of the most strikingly beautiful dry-stone walling systems in all of Europe? Let's ...

Seth Thomas, an instructor at the Dry Stone Conservancy, shapes limestone during a workshop in Jessamine County on Nov. 23, 2024. Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com Don Hopper pivoted over the ...

LOCAL volunteers have been lending a hand at Denton Reserve, taking part in traditional dry stone walling repairs to help preserve an important feature of the North Yorkshire landscape. Dry stone ...