Thinking With My Hands

Looking back on a really successful dry stone festival this year I am reminded of what a great job everyone did. The musicians the people wh...

On the same two days as the beginner's workshop at Brockport NY which was held last weekend, other students, who took last year's co...

We used the same handrail design for the Rocktoberfest bridge last Thanksgiving as we did at the Macdougall public bridge which we built in ...

DSWA mastercraftsman Norman Haddow and I co-taught a two day course in Brockport NY together on Saturday and Sunday.The weather was great. W...

At our Rocktoberfest event in Rockport, held last weekend, there were seven people who took their certification test. These were all compet...

Where are all these people going? They don't look like ordinary hikers - and there are so many of them! They all seem very excited about...

Live musical accompaniment is a key element of our walling festivals. The musicians tell us they get inspired watching us work. This video ...

Building a proper dry stone wall involves a lot of the same principles as stacking firewood. The important thing is that the pieces are laid...

I think the most satisfying aspect of building dry stone walls and and bridges is that even though they are newly completed structures they ...

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There have always been a lot of special meals at our Rocktoberfest gatherings. At this years festival Friday's lunch we provided for thr...

Pre-festival excitement last Thursday as the creek starts to rise where the Landon Bay dry stone bridge is being built this weekend at 1000 ...

Building stone walls, fireplaces, arches and bridges with many hands is not just lighter and faster work but also very educational. There ar...

A waller's hands often get really dirty during a normal day moving, lifting and hugging stones. These hands were building with an unusua...

The bell-shaped structure we built in Toronto last weekend reminded some of us of stupa bells ( Buddhist commemorative monuments usually hou...

Our involvement in Nuit Blanch last Saturday allowed many Torontonians to experience dry stone walling as an art form. Usually stones walls ...

The Bell nearly completed, (towards 1:30 in the morning) after 6 hours of solid building. Hundreds of people coming by to watch us all night...

Tonight is Nuit Blanche, an all-night celebration of the arts in Toronto. As many of you know, in honour of this event we are going to be do...

We were politely notified yesterday in a letter that a proposal we had submitted to the City of Saint John, New Brunswick in its open public...

Not far from South Monaghan Ontario along Line 3 Road east of Smithson Road there are the remnants of old dry stone walls either side of the...