Can't be real.
Clingstone, a 103-year-old dream place is located in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay.
Henry Wood, the owner, a 79-year-old Boston architect, bought the house with his ex-wife Joan in 1961 for $3,600. It had been empty for two decades.
He runs the house like a camp: all skilled workers welcome. The Jamestown Boatyard hauls the family's boats and floating dock and stores them each winter in return for a week's use of the house in the summer.
The house is maintained by an ingenious method: the Clingstone work weekend. Held every year around Memorial Day, it brings 70 or so friends and Clingstone lovers together to tackle jobs like washing all 65 of the windows. Anne Tait, who is married to Mr. Wood's son Dan, refinished the kitchen floor on one of her first work weekends.
This is the most desirable place I have seen for a vacation. Just imagine a long dinner feast next to this huge table at a cold wintry day... The winds outside, and the waves. miraculous.
Mr. Wood? Hello? I'm really good at making casseroles! and soups!
Well, I'm also good in cleaning windows!
Please count me in next time you're inviting!! I'll do whatever needed!!
Source: NYTimes.com
Wonderful! Is there an application form?
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, I looked hard!
ReplyDeleteMaybe if you'll make good enough wine they will let us in... ;-)