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Westchester’s stone walls interweave history with today’s bucolic beauty.
By Leslie Long Published October 21, 2010 at 10:03 AM
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No matter where you live in Westchester, you're bound to come up to historic, evocative, and imposing stone walls; they're often right around the corner. Built originally by farmers as they cleared their fields for crops, stone walls today define our roadways, line our pathways, and hold our waterways at bay. They stand as sturdy testaments to those who walked and worked our land long before we built our homes on it. Take a hike this fall and take your time to appreciate, admire, and delight in these poignant pieces of our past.
 | Known nationwide for Blue Hill, its fine farm-to-table restaurant, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills also boasts gardens, pastures, and walking paths, many lined with beautiful old stone walls. |
| From Pocantico Hills and Sleepy Hollow to Mamaroneck and Waccabuc, stone walls add their unique shapes and weathered patina to our countryside. |  |
 | A red barn on Mamaroneck’s Old White Plains Road is as pretty as any in Vermont—and the perfect compliment to the russet foliage. |
| In his book, Stone by Stone, Robert Thorson says the stone wall is the key that links natural history and human history. With a strategically placed pumpkin, this wall becomes part of Waccabuc’s autumn festivities. |  |
Reminds me of Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption:
It's got a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end. It's like something out of a Robert Frost poem. It's where I asked my wife to marry me. We went there for a picnic and made love under that oak and I asked and she said yes. Promise me, Red. If you ever get out... find that spot. At the base of that wall, you'll find a rock that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield. Piece of black, volcanic glass. There's something buried under it I want you to have.