Teachers Reference - Annotations Painting by Gustav Moore from
Stone Wall Secrets. Note: For convenience, each page and
ilustration are named and begin with the red color. Annotations
to the text are followed by annotations to the paintings. To
look for annotations by subject, link to Subject Index .
FRONTISPIECE (Boulders with Grass) Scattered throughout New
England  there are thousands  of stone walls  crisscrossing
woods and fields  as if they have been there forever  . Each one
has a story to tell, a story of farmers and oxen and hard, muddy
work. And every stone in every wall also has a story to tell, an
older story  of the land itself, of mountains and glaciers, of
soils and seas. 1 STONE WALLS - Geography - Where are stone
walls found? The geographic distribution of stone walls is quite
uneven throughout the region. Walls exist wherever the soils of
pastures and cultivated fields held a concentration of glacial
stones. Areas that were never farmed, or areas where the stones
were buried by mud from rive