Word: mortarless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain why, in the middle of the Harvard University Forest, there are stone walls, some of them stretching for hundreds of yards beside what are now trails, under what are now pine trees. New England stone walls are marvelously precise, considering. The rocks fit so snugly that a hundred mortarless years have done nothing to displace them. As a reminder of the forest reclaiming the field, they are in one sense eerie. But the thought that others have lived and worked here is reassuring...
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