Month: May 2011

Waveny Mansion Tables

Would you like to enjoy a summer meal here?  Or maybe a picnic on the grounds? Waveny House was built in New Canaan in 1912 by a founder of Texaco for use as the family’s summer cottage.  The mansion and 300 surrounding acres, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, were purchased by New Canaan in 1967 for “the future use of…

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Outwitted by Birdbrains

The apple trees in our back yard are quite old but I would never take them down.  They are one of the reasons I had to have this house.    (Yep.  That’s true.  The trees and the cedar closet.  And the house’s voice that said to me when I walked through the front door, “Where have you been?  I’ve been…

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