Friday, June 4, 2010
more history of our house
Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia publishes a lovely quarterly called The Griffin. Its summer issue has an article I wrote about the history of our house, which you can download as a pdf file if you like. The photos that accompany the article are not all my own. The circa 1911 photo is courtesy of Danno Goulden, and the western and south-western elevations of the house before we bought it are courtesy of Wolfgang Schricker.
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It's a very quiet and foggy Sunday morning here and I just downloaded and read the Spring issue of The Griffin. I enjoyed reading about your home and thinking of parallels to mine, which is a circa 1820's full cape with an older small extension off to the side. I suspect this was built as the families of earlier Planter settlements in the valley began to use their mountain woodlots for new homes for the succeeeding generations. Thanks so much for the link - lots of interesting articles!
Superb article. I expected pretty much stuff already posted on the blog, but no: tons of great new titbits in the article (or is my memory just more seive-like than I even knew?) Now awaiting the second installment! :-)
Janet, these houses can be a source of endless fascination, I think. Your older small extension is so intriguing. I wonder how common that pattern of building was at the time.
Terry, it's true, I keep finding out more things. It's all coming so slowly, since I'm limited in my ability to actually hang out at various research places. But maybe it's more fun this way. Certainly it's more tantalizing. A bits & pieces approach!
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