Robert Thorson

Robert Thorson

Robert Thorson is a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Connecticut and the coordinator of the Stone Wall Initiative, an internet portal to the signature landform of New England.

Stories from this author

Dividing the estimated length of 240,000 miles of stone wall by the geographic area of the New England heartland yields about six linear miles of stone per square mile of land.

How Stone Walls Became a Signature Landform of New England

Originally built as barriers between fields and farms, the region’s abandoned farmstead walls have since become the binding threads of its cultural fabric