Stone walls in New England originated with colonial farmers needing to move stones from plow fields and wanting to create a fence at the same time, but construction accelerated and improved in the early 1800s with the importing of merino sheep from Spain.
Wool from the prodigious sheep stocked the industrial-revolution mills of New England and gave subsistence farmers a valuable commodity — but fences were needed to hem them in.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has announced her office is investigating the Cambridge-based data firm that President Donald Trump's campaign used to obtain information on more than 50 million Facebook users, but a former official who worked during President Barack Obama's successful 2008 and 2012 campaigns says the Democrats effectively employed the same strategy.
Healey on Saturday re-tweeted a New York Times report outlining how Cambridge Analytica, with the help of a wealthy GOP donor and the direction of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, "harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission."
