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Hickory Hill and Rosslyn
The Ross Mansion, Essex, NY I recently happened on this antique postcard of the Ross Mansion (aka Hickory Hill) which was built by the brother of W.D. Ross, Rosslyn’s original in the early 1820s....
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Rosslyn Gardens: Heirloom Tomatoes and More
Rain, rain, rain. That was the main melody this spring, and all of that rain delayed planting vegetables. But as Lake Champlain‘s devastating flood of 2011 begins to subside, virtualDavis turns to the...
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Ed Pais visits Rosslyn Boathouse
Edward Pais was a classmate of mine at Deerfield Academy from 1986 to 1990, and he now practices architecture in Burlington, Vermont. Despite being out of touch for more than two decades we recently...
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Moon Over Lake Champlain
Moonrise over Lake Champlain with Rosslyn boathouse in foreground Last night’s moonrise over the Vermont foothills (south of the Green Mountains) was absolutely sensational! The moon started out fat...
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Three Perks of Life in Essex
Three more reasons why I love living in Essex, New York: Beverly Eichenlaub's Essex Glass,Essex Provisions' shrimp quiche and Tom Duca's find-a-problem-solve-a-problem magic! Yesterday afternoon...
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Totally Incompatible
Image by virtualDavis via Flickr My fixer-upper forays with Bruce and other local realtors evolved when Susan joined the search. She shared my dream of an old farmhouse surrounded by open meadows with...
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Hickory Hill and Homeport
Hickory Hill in Essex, New York circa 1907 (photo by B. Benton Barker) Rosslyn artifacts continue to emerge, and sometimes they’re not even even Rosslyn artifacts at all but Ross family artifacts. For...
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Remembering and Recounting
“Life is not what one lives, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Living to Tell the Tale As I organize multiple pieces of Rosslyn’s...
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House of Dreams
House of Dreams (Quotation by Gaston Bachelard via Keri Smith) Hat top to Keri Smith, one of my favorite doodlers (I’m talking about the short-short list!) for sharing this Eureka moment quotation on...
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