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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls

There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story―about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them.
Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls

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