New England Stone Walls
b'New England Stone Walls
Guest:\\xa0Kevin Gardner, former producer for NH public radio, stonemason, and author of \\u201cThe Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls\\u201d
Master stonemason Kevin Gardner has dedicated his life to building and restoring stone walls in New England.\\xa0He shares techniques for building stone walls and stories of the struggles faced by early New England settlers.\\xa0
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Hand Hewn
Guest: Jack A. Sobon, architect and builder specializing in timber-framing, and Founding Director of Timber Framers Guild of North America
Constructing houses from wood, by hand, is a craft with thousands of years of history, and still has great value to us today, both for its structural and aesthetic values, as well as for the connections it has to the people building it and the land it came from.'