It all started with an unruly slope, bad access to the street from the house, and a poorly built dry stone wall...... We started by taking up the concrete path through the trees to the street, and removing the poorly built limestone dry stone retaining wall for many reasons: 1) It was failing, 2) [...]
Nick Fairplay & Patrick McAffee looks sum up the weeks hard work. It was an amazing week of transferring knowledge in stone to students, to faculty, and to the broader community that participated. This was my 8th StoneFest to attend. The first one I attended lit my passion for a relationship with stone. No [...]
Each project we start begins with one stone. It sets the tone for all others that follow in response to it's mathematical proportions and character. Generally I like to start with a good sized stone and build out in enough directions where my crew and I can see where we are going. On this project [...]