Stories in Stone

Many people, including me, have written extensively about the classic brownstones of New York and Boston. Recently, I learned about a simila...

As noted in my previous posting, slate does have a long history as a wonderful tombstone material but my favorite tombstones are the ones ca...

Go to any city across the country and you will find one building stone in all of them: Salem Limestone from Indiana. People pray, have bab...

Recently there has been much bother and brouhaha about the opening of the new stadium for the New York Yankees. The New Yorker ’s fine arc...

Many people, including me, have written extensively about the famous white limestone from Indiana. In my book Stories in Stone , I call th...

So you’re heading out to Washington D.C. to attend the inauguration and wondering what to do in the down time between the Bruce Springsteen ...

Prompted by Silver Fox and inspired by Geology News , this post focuses on one of my favorite geology movies, Breaking Away .   The film  t...