What Stone Walls Do
From the very first time the Shakers were gathered at Canterbury in 1792, stone walls were on their “to do” list. As Brother Henry C. Blinn observed, “The f[e]lling of trees, the clearing of the land, the building of stone walls, and the multiplied laborious duties of the farm, as well as the burden of obtaining suitable dwellings, called into active service every able bodied man.”