Living and gardening in an older Hudson Valley home
Winter is for indoor projects. After cleaning, painting and papering most of the house, there was still one room untouched. The original house plans show an unfinished room over the garage. At some point this room was finished with a connecting door to the nursery, making it ostensibly a bedroom for an au pair. It […]
Inviting people to dinner to enjoy a nice meal and conversation is something I have enjoyed for many years. The original owners of the house, the Harcourts, surely entertained well. Alfred Harcourt, brother of Stanley Harcourt, who built and lived in my home, was a leading publisher in his day. He published, Robert Frost, Sinclair […]
Last weekend, Andrew and I entertained former Newburgh neighbors for dinner. They were among the first people we met when we moved to the neighborhood and we have stayed in contact with them – they just moved a mile away. We had a lovely evening discussing the neighborhood, both the Town and the City of […]
