It’s that time of year! The holidays and historic homes go together like Mr. and Mrs. Claus and organizations across New England and beyond host annual holiday house tours to showcase special homes and their holiday decorating style. For the first time last year I attended the The Friends of the Mark Twain House &…
Having lived in West Hartford for over twenty years now and due to my more recent pastime of photographing homes, I have become familiar with many sections of town. One of my favorite spots is a little jewel of a neighborhood called the West Hill Drive Historic District. I’ll never forget the first time I discovered…
Just a short twenty-minute ride from my current hometown of West Hartford lies Old Wethersfield, CT which has the distinction of being the largest historic district in the state with over 1,100 contributing structures. The area was settled in 1634 and by some counts is the first settlement in the state (there is some debate over that!)…
The following is a creative writing piece by my daughter Lauren, a junior in high school. Her history teacher asked that the students write a piece from the perspective of an employee who worked in the mill town of Lowell, MA in the early 1800s. Various things were to be included such as what type of…
Here we are! Thursday Doors. But wait, it’s Friday you say? Why yes it is. And it’s also 2:30 p.m., not an optimal time to post. But I worked so hard on this that I just couldn’t wait!
When I began blogging earlier this year, much of the advice that I read told me not to wait until everything was “perfect” with the look of my blog before starting. I was new at using WordPress and overwhelmed by the number of themes available so I just picked one randomly. I have to say I never…
