This was conducted in the week previous to the SYMPOSIUM. The instructors were John Shaw Rimmington and Dean McClellan of the Dry Stone Wall Association of Canada. There were eighteen students (including four women) from all over the US and eastern Canada.

The project to be realized was a bowling court, a rectangular space roughly 60 by 40 feet where several games of Bocce or Lithobolos (Bocce with stone balls) can be played simultaneously.

Fourteen roughly square granite blocks were arrayed in symmetrical fashion to delineate the court and dry stone (schist) walls were built in the spaces between the blocks.

On the last day of the Workshop the students and instructors built an arch between two left-over blocks.
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below: Dean and John (with pointer) giving one of their periodic "crit sessions" of the work done by the students. Done several times during the course of a day, this was an effective way of communicating the Do's and Don'ts of the craft.