Stories in Stone

Several times during the research for my book on building stone, I came across references to making or using mortar. In particular, in my ...

As someone seriously interested in rocks for the past 25 years or so and building stone for the past dozen, I am embarrassingly bereft in my...

Over the past few days I participated in a wonderful event called StoneFest . The four-day extravaganza brought together stonemasons, scul...

Earlier this year, on March 6 to be precise, I described a wonderful book that I had been given by my nephew. The book was part of the Ce...

The recent and tragic fires around Los Angeles have prompted me to write about the connection between fire and stone. Vitruvius was one of...

Seven posts down and one to go on my virtual book tour. I have been pleased with the previous two weeks of my "travels." Last Mond...

Today, I learned about another great stone tombstone. It is a several-foot-tall piece of petrified wood that marks the grave of one of my h...