Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls Thorson RobertPaperback
Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls Thorson RobertPaperback There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the…
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Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls Thorson RobertPaperback
There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. 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 walls tell nothing less than the story of how New England was formed, and in Robert Thorson's hands they live and breathe. They took three billion man-hours to build.
Millions of years ago, New England's stones belonged to ancient mountains thrust up by prehistoric collisions between continents. The stone wall is the key that links the natural history and human history of New England, Thorson writes. During the Ice Age, pieces
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