A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...

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 ...