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A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...

UConn Professor of Earth Sciences Robert Thorson has studied and defended stone walls for years, while writing books, giving talks, and leading hikes surrounding the subject. Now, in a paper published ...

Originally built as barriers between fields and farms, the region’s abandoned farmstead walls have since become the binding threads of its cultural fabric Robert Thorson | Professor of Earth Sciences ...

The pandemic’s first wave hit Connecticut hard, but of late, things have been looking up. Thanks to outmigration from New York, real estate is hotter than at any time since before the Great Recession.

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