Stories in Stone

I moved to Boston about a dozen years ago. My wife and I had been living in Moab so it was quite a shock to arrive in the Hub. Gone were the...

Over the past couple of years, a controversy has arisen over possible human footprints in central Mexico. The disagreement centers on age a...

Every ten years the federal government conducts a census of the people. Census takers spread across the country ferreting out the vital st...

Foraminifera, or forams, are one of the more well known group of fossils.   Most, such as the ones in the Salem Limestone, are wee little cr...

Although Abraham Lincoln’s birthday was last week, we honor him today, as will I, by looking at the building stone of the Lincoln Memorial. ...

By far the most interesting site on the web for building stone is Peggy and Pat Perazzo’s Stone Quarries and Beyond .   Clearly a labor of l...

As someone interested in names and what they mean, I am regularly intrigued by the terms used in the building stone trade.   Often the names...

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 ...

I am not alone in my passion for building stone. Today, I wanted to explore a few of the other books about building stone. This is not close...

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

Twenty years ago today a building stone brouhaha erupted in Seattle.   On that snowy Friday, local newspapers reported that Metro, which man...

This will be the first of what I hope to be periodic postings about the building stones of famous edifices, such as the Great Pyramids, Mach...