Ask any sugarmaker and theyll surely tell you: theres a certain romance to the art of tapping your own maple trees. From the smell of the sugarshack wood smoke, to the pling, pling sound of sap in the galvanized bucket, to the crunch of snow and the bracing cold of the winter woods on your cheeks, its all too easy to fall in love with one of [...]

Selcombe is a hill farm in Brookline, Vermont that has been loved and cared for by the same family for five generations. The owners reflect on the joy and the benefits of a large land [...]

Stacks of photo albums sit on the table next to the fireplace at Selcombeand capture the daily life of a summer placein Brookline, Vermont over the last one hundred years. Five generations have loved this 750-acre hill farm with its swimming hole, 1819 brick Cape and English-style barn.Each generation has pasted in photosandrecordeda [...]

One of the things I really love about the house is that it is not fabulous, fancy or precious. It has the simple, honest, straightforward beauty of the vernacular local materials, assembled to meet the needs of a small Vermont hill farm, but designed and built by a skilled builder with a keen instinct for and understanding of proportion, [...]