The 2023 maple season is off with a bang. Three boils in the sugarhouse have yielded several gallons of heavenly sweetness. Frosty nights and sunny days get the sap running. Our 260 buckets will be full again before we know it. Stop by the sugarhouse if you see see steam pouring from the cupola. There’s a taste of Vermont essence waiting for you.
“Sugaring off” begins our yearly activities. To see what fun we had last year take a gander at the 2022 newsletter.
Read MoreOnce again, dry stone construction has taken me around the seasons. Work that employed the simplest of means culminated in a complexity of projects and events. There were presentations, workshops, consultations and proposals. There were utilitarian constructions, memorials and art installations. There was even a grant awarded and inclusion in a magazine article and a book. The year in stone took me around New England, to other countries and back in time.
Read More“Walls of Snowdonia”; it could be the title of a fantasy video game featuring my stoneworks. But, no, Snowdonia is a real place, and although I did make some stone wall repairs in Wales while visiting Philip Clark in the early 1990’s those walls are not included in this folio of beautiful photographs by Peter Ogwen Jones, Walls of Snowdonia. In fact, these beautiful examples of the waller’s craft were constructed more than a century ago. They continue to stand as testaments to the enduring value, practical and aesthetic, of handmade structures in the living landscape.
Read More"Working hands inform thought and awaken understanding of the art builder's place in the natural world. Undulant lines and patterned spaces are the result of many choices made by the builder who recognizes, and utilizes, the unique character of stone"
- Dan Snow
