March 2013

Developing Iron Deficieny

It all began at a small auction in Frederick, Maryland, over 20 years ago, and a whimsical architectural feature that caught my fancy.  Surrounded by a circlet of Acanthus leaves, a trio of egrets stood among the reeds, congregating around the central stalk of an undulating canopy, with scalloped edges leading back in folds toward the center to support

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Conversations with the dead

Talking to the dead is a pasttime that many “old-house people” entertain themselves with during the many hours of labor they put into their homes, as these structures are the evidence of human lives lived.  Families who dreamed of a place to call their own, who worked hard, planned, saved, and designed.  Laborers who toiled,

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