Here in New England we have a unique historical record in the drystone walls and structures that is available to all by simply driving down most roads, or walking through the woods.
This lecture will draw comparisons both similar and dissimilar in geology, building styles and techniques, and follow the development and evolution of stone walls and structures
In England and New England from colonial times to the present day, and explain how they fit into the garden and wider landscape past and present.
Born in Yorkshire, England, Andrew Pighills is an accomplished stone artisan, gardener and horticulturist. He received his formal horticulture training with The Royal Horticultural Society at Harlow Carr Gardens in Harrogate Yorkshire.
Today, Andrew is one of an ever growing number of US-based professional members of The Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain. His stone work has been featured on British and American television, and in Jeffrey Matz’s Midcentury Houses Today, A study of residential modernism in New Canaan Connecticut.
He has featured in the NYTimes, Yankee magazine, on Martha Stewart Living radio, and in the Graham Deneen film short “Dry Stone”, and most recently in the 2017-2018 edition of Southern New England Home Magazine.