AsaHunt1830Farmhouse

By the end of January, the professionals had cleared out the main floors of the house, leaving only the basement filled with lots of old stuff. But rather than have someone else clear all that out, we went down in there and realized that this was a unique opportunity to fix up some things that…

One of the first couples we became friends with in Pennington were parents of one of the kids from school, and who had also recently moved to the area. They were very engaged and energetic in the local arts, and one day they stopped by to tell us they had bought us a “Folly.” There…

From out of the ashes rose the world’s most powerful republic.   In 1748, a construction crew digging on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Italy uncovered what appeared to be the ruins of a Roman settlement. They began to excavate, and engineers and historians were called in. What they found was more than just…

OK, we thought, this is really gonna hurt. Folks are going into our house with crowbars and hammers, and they are gonna tear it apart. So we stayed away, hunkered down at our rental house across town, and waited for them to finish. And then one day we drove over, unlocked the side door. And…

There once was a house. And there will be again. Ralph Hunt arrived on Long Island in 1652, “among a party of Englishmen.” He may have landed in America even earlier; there is a Ralph Hunt of the correct age listed on the passenger manifest of the Primrose that sailed from London to Virginia in…

On December 5, around 10:30AM, an electrical unit in our kitchen seized and caught fire. By the time we realized it, it had engulfed the kitchen. Volunteers from six townships responded, and put out the blaze. But by then, the entire house interior had been impacted by heat and smoke, several rooms had been completely…