Once a year for three weeks in January and February the entire world of mineral, fossil, and semi-precious stone quarriers and suppliers converge on Tucson, Arizona. Hundreds of vendors selling Moroccan marine fossils, Malagasy petrified wood, Chinese crystals, and...
Megalithic stonework After spending half a lifetime as a Marine, a mountaineering instructor, and a prolific Jackson, WY architect, Vince Lee turned his attention toward analyzing and documenting the mind-blowing achievements of ancient quarriers and stonemasons...
An Irish Round Tower in Northern California Rare Opportunity Few stonemasons get the opportunity to build structural stone buildings. Fewer still get to work on a round tower in the medieval Irish tradition. On the coast of northern California, members of the...
Although Julius Caesar first invaded Britain in 55 BC, it wasn’t until 43 AD, under Emperor Claudius, that Romans began occupying present-day England. They stayed for nearly four centuries. One Roman settlement was along the swampy northern shoreline of the...
The high prairie north of the Little Belt Mountains in central Montana seems like an endless stretch of flat-topped benches separated by deep ravines called “coulees.” This is where we quarry Flatwillow Fieldstone, a Cretaceous sandstone eroded from the...