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Stone by Stone - The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls (Paperback)
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Stone by Stone - The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 180
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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 walls tell nothing less than the story of how New England was
formed, and in Robert Thorson's hands they live and breathe. "The
stone wall is the key that links the natural history and human
history of New England," Thorson writes. Millions of years ago, New
England's stones belonged to ancient mountains thrust up by
prehistoric collisions between continents. During the Ice Age,
pieces were cleaved off by glaciers and deposited--often hundreds
of miles away--when the glaciers melted. Buried again over
centuries by forest and soil buildup, the stones gradually worked
their way back to the surface, only to become impediments to the
farmers cultivating the land in the eighteenth century, who piled
them into "linear landfills," a place to hold the stones. Usually
the biggest investment on a farm, often exceeding that of the land
and buildings combined, stone walls became a defining element of
the Northeast's landscape, and a symbol of the shift to an
agricultural economy.
Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements
reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them,
for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the
early American experience, "Stone by Stone" presents a fascinating
picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and
understand it with new eyes.
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