Looks like I’m getting started, it’s been awhile coming. Every time I do a tour there are so many questions about the venue: when it was built, how we made it look 300 years old, how did we think of all the details you see in every inch of this place, where did we find all of the amazing antiques, yada-yada-yada. 

So, yeah, there’s a story here – several, actually. We’re going to skip a lot of the unpleasant parts with wicked contractors that were on the scam and stuff like that, this place deserves a much happier telling, because that’s what it is: a place where joyful moments happen . . . families are created . . . beauty unfolds in every season . . . and great memories are made. 

Question is . . . where do I begin? Read on.