THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE

 I'm mostly on Instagram these days, but curious if anyone is still out there. 

In June of 1894, Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, the parents of Winston Churchill, embarked on a round-the-world tour.  After landing in ...

It didn't quite come out the same as the Veranda cover...

A beautiful Greek Revival house,"Riverside" was built c.1840  on ancestral land, for the Glidden family of Newcastle, Maine, owne...

My morning distraction was set in motion by an 18th century engraving of the Cabinet de Treillage at the Petite Trianon at Versailles. ...

On a quick  outing with an observant friend to the near Down East (Winter Harbor and Gouldsboro), I particularly captivated by the textures ...

In the year since I last posted, there has been a veritable landslide of demand for my return (at least 3 people and a dog at last count), s...