The Stone Wall Initiative
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The SWI is a web-based source for stone wall enthusiasts. Most of those to visit this site constitute an informal regional coalition of property owners, local historians, nature seekers, officers of federal and state agencies, historical and archaeological societies, cultural resource managers, museums, land trusts, architects, scientists, teachers. The SWI is housed within the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut. It's coordinator is Professor Robert M.Thorson, the author of Three Books on stone walls.