Adopting an Abandoned Farm
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After weeks of relief from hotels and fashionable company, Kate Sanborn rents an old farmhouse and twenty-five neglected acres in New England. Her first-person account begins with the pleasures of imagining a new home: cupboards, a brick oven, a spacious barn and a small pool that might become a pond. The rent is forty dollars a year, but keeping the place in order soon gives her plenty to learn.
Farm life brings auctions, plans for poultry, village entertainments and encounters with people whose stories demand a patient listener. Sanborn hopes to furnish eleven rooms for a hundred dollars, and her purchases include a clock with a very unreliable sense of time. Elsewhere, tales of strange visitors and haunted card games enter the conversation. Readers interested in rural life will find a playful account of household ambition, local customs and the gap between an attractive plan and its practical demands.
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- Author
- Kate Sanborn
- Pages
- 55
- Language
- English
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