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A Time to Gather Stones

Sep 24

Written By Joe Norton

Bringing stones together from across the state.

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I’ve been looking for stone.

When I venture too far inland from the coast, I get the feeling I’m trespassing. I walk into a gas station north of Pittsfield, and I’m sure they can tell I’ve never shot a deer. Or plowed a fiel

Seven years later.

I first visited this site on a bitterly cold day in January 2019. That summer, with a rough sketch in hand, we built a dry stone wall to create a series of garden beds.

I was back last week to talk about a new project. It’s

For a couple hundred years, this granite held back the Crooked River.

When the Edes Falls dam was removed a few years ago, the town salvaged the stone. This summer, as part of a revamped park near the former dam site, we built a wall from those same

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