Dry Stone Conservancy’s 30th Anniversary

Established in 1996, the Dry Stone Conservancy (DSC) is an organization dedicated to preserving historic dry-laid stone structures and reviving the ancient craft of dry-stone masonry. On Saturday, November 7, the DSC celebrated its thirty-year anniversary with a “30th Birthday Group Build.” Dry-stone masons from around the county gathered at Lower Howard’s Creek Nature & Heritage Preserve to erect a stone memorial. The group of masons spent the day building a stone wall with a massive cairn rising in the center. The plan came from the imagination of Russell Waddell, Executive Director of the Conservancy. Stuart Joynt, a local stonemason, carved the rectangular center stone for the cairn on site. The tablet reads, “DSC, 2026, 30th.” The group of masons came in to work on the project from places far and wide, including California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, North Carolina and elsewhere.

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