Stone walls

[SteveP]

That took you long enough. A true friend would have been more attentive.

if you came up and shoveled me out it would have helped.

[ZenNMotion]

Here in northern VA horse country the roads are lined with them, I assume they were slave built which to me isn't a quaint or happy thought at all- it had to have been particularly miserable labor. Some served as tactical structures, as protection or occasional traps during the skirmishes leading to the Gettysburg battle. As a result I feel quite ambivalent about the occasional ugly gaps where unscrupulous landscapers have stolen the stones to set in some disney-esqe "tuscan-style" McMansion property owned by modern day robber barons, war profiteers and political operatives who live nearby in the richest county in the country. The VA walls are beautiful yes, but only from a perspective of whitewashed history.