Between Stone and Sky2018

"Whitney Brown was midway through her Master's thesis and on the verge of accepting a job as a curator at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington when a chance meeting with a Welsh dry-stone waller at a folklife festival changed the course of her life. Within weeks Whitney had left behind her secure world in the States and was living with him in rural Wales, learning the craft of dry-stone walling. What started simply as a working holiday led to the swift and utter decimation of all of her previous life plans. She fell irretrievably in love with Wales and for what she found there - for stone, for the act of physical creation (and accompanying physical exhaustion), for life in the countryside and days spent working in the sanctuary of a lonely hillside to repair structures older than the...