CONWAY — Who among us has not come across a stone wall in the middle of the woods when out on a hike in the White Mountains and wondered: What’s THAT doing out here in the middle of nowhere?
“Many people often ask that question,” notes Rick Chormann, director of the state Department of Geological Survey.
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