Sept 13th, 2019 : Stonewall

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, not the NYC Gay riots drag queen Marsha Johnson started against being harassed at the Stonewall Inn.
The 100,000 miles(161,000 km) of stonewalls in the New England woods, which would go around the Earth four times, and is
down from 250,000 miles(402,000 km and 400 million tons) in the 1850s. Now most are out of sight out of mind to most people,
but traversing any New England woods you’re likely to stumble on several walls, anywhere from knee high to waist high.
New England farmers were not stone craftsmen pining for walls, the reason every field was lined with stone is to get them the hell
out of the way. Stones are a winter crop, they are plentiful every damn spring and have to be moved to plow, harrow and plant.



New Hampshire has a project going to crowdsource the locations.

Through an interactive interface known as the New Hampshire Stone Wall Mapper, interested parties can map the plethora of walls from the resulting aerial imagery. The platform allows anyone with a computer and internet access to trace the walls right onto LiDAR images. Once complete, users can input where a given structure is located, along with any observations about the wall’s condition. You can also upload images. It then appears on the main map as a pink line, containing all the relevant information.

DES state geologist Rick Chormann also hopes that people will take the time to write about their personal experiences with the wall they mapped.

Uh, sure... well this here wall was built with the stones used by an angry mob to stone Granny to death for not putting salt pork in the
baked beans for the church supper. It were a real pain in the butt picking up all them stones ‘cause Granny’s blood made ‘em slippery.


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