A four-generation Peach Bottom Township slate roofing company has restored the roof of the original Welsh immigrant cottage in Coulsontown, near where the slate was quarried by these workers. Peach ...

Four years ago, 25 tonnes of slate, comprising 14,000 pieces of specially hand-cut and hand-worked roof slate, were shipped from Wales for St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral. For 10 years James Henry has ...

(This is the first of two columns on the slate industry.) In a hilly, wooded section at the fringe of the Pocono Mountain uplift, six and seven generations of families have produced slate that has ...

An Eryri museum which tells the story of how Welsh slate once roofed the world will see its new shop topped with metal and a visitor shelter with corrugated sheets. Queries over why slate wasn't used ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Catch the new series of Salvage Hunters: Georgian House Restoration featuring Welsh Slate roofing The programme includes Drew Pritchard at Penrhyn Quarry to see the process of splitting and dressing ...

With the devastating fire that did major damage at the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education in Hellam Township on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, it reminded me to write a column on the importance of ...

Dinorwig slate quarries gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2018 The slate quarries of north-west Wales gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2018. Once, slate carved from here was sent ...