Hopkinton, NH, where my grandfather, Dr. Arthur Willis Goodspeed lived and died! He was the founder of the radiology dept, of the University of Penna. I am familiar with stone walls, growing up as a teenager in N. E. Penna. with lotsa rocks as in New England. Our dairy farm was, as you say, a patchwork of small acreages of cleared and tillable land. Created and cleared by placing rocks on a boundary as a “wall.”. The rock was mostly slate if memory serves and the only reason for the wall was to get rid of it to create tillable land! Your “lecture” is hurried but intriguing. Are you still in Hopkinton? The museum was given portraits by me of the parents of the man in who’s honor the building was constructed by an adoring wife. The Goodspeed home, adjacent to the stone Episcopal Church, was burned down by a fire begun by an exploding still down the street. Three elderly trees in front of that lot still stand which celebrated three of Goodspeed’s offspring. Cheers!
Out on Block Island the Historical Society explains their spectacular collection of stone walls to an era of assistance from an influx of indentured servants. Many from Scotland. One needed to build 13 miles of stone wall to purchase freedom. Maybe the indentured service was wider spread?
So, ...you don't believe in the fact that when the colonists arrived, that so manyvwalls had already been constructed by the native Americans of the new england region? This is a bit of a helter skelter lecture.
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Hopkinton, NH, where my grandfather, Dr. Arthur Willis Goodspeed lived and died! He was the founder of the radiology dept, of the University of Penna. I am familiar with stone walls, growing up as a teenager in N. E. Penna. with lotsa rocks as in New England. Our dairy farm was, as you say, a patchwork of small acreages of cleared and tillable land. Created and cleared by placing rocks on a boundary as a “wall.”. The rock was mostly slate if memory serves and the only reason for the wall was to get rid of it to create tillable land! Your “lecture” is hurried but intriguing. Are you still in Hopkinton? The museum was given portraits by me of the parents of the man in who’s honor the building was constructed by an adoring wife. The Goodspeed home, adjacent to the stone Episcopal Church, was burned down by a fire begun by an exploding still down the street. Three elderly trees in front of that lot still stand which celebrated three of Goodspeed’s offspring. Cheers!
What a lovely comprehensive talk and demonstration !!!
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Out on Block Island the Historical Society explains their spectacular collection of stone walls to an era of assistance from an influx of indentured servants. Many from Scotland. One needed to build 13 miles of stone wall to purchase freedom. Maybe the indentured service was wider spread?
So, ...you don't believe in the fact that when the colonists arrived, that so manyvwalls had already been constructed by the native Americans of the new england region?
This is a bit of a helter skelter lecture.