THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE

T his morning, while paging through the 1920 edition of House & Garden's Second Book of Interiors , I passed many handsome ro...

No, seriously, I really did, although undeniably the bar lowers for what can be considered dangerous risk in late middle age.  No derri...

Darn.  My work requires two days indoors in an old stone mansion high above the Hudson while it rains outside.  More later.

My intentions are always sterling---to post a short, concise essay and two or three pictures about something that I hope will be of passing...

Drum roll, please--- have I remembered to mention that I'm writing a book?  About the cottages of the summer colonies of Down East co...

I'm a sucker for 'then and now' photo essays.  Sadly, the 'now' is rarely as good as 'then'---collectively, we ...