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  • Remembering Essex Cartoonist, Sid Couchey

    On a gray November afternoon back in 2010, Ruth and Sid Couchey rang my doorbell to present this playful rendering of Rosslyn’s boathouse. We sat in the living room and talked and laughed until the dreary afternoon yielded to technicolor levity. Sid Couchey’s Legacy of Laughter [pullquote]With a perennial twinkle in his eye and a…

  • North Country Farm Stands

    North Country Farm Stands

    The good folks at Cooking Up a Story featured this farm stand video about North Country summer living, and I couldn’t resist contacting them to find out where the farm stand is located. They responded quickly: They are in Alburgh, VT – which is in the northwest corner of the state – nestled against NY and…

  • Haying with Draft Horses at Full and By Farm

    Haying with Draft Horses at Full and By Farm

    CSA run by Sarah Kurak and James Graves in Essex, New York.

  • Ed Pais visits Rosslyn Boathouse

    Ed Pais visits Rosslyn Boathouse

    Edward Pais was a classmate of mine at Deerfield Academy from 1986 to 1990, and he now practices architecture in Burlington, Vermont. Despite being out of touch for more than two decades we recently reconnected via Facebook. Ed joined the Rosslyn Redux Facebook page and he’s offered ongoing feedback about our boathouse during the Lake…

  • Make Way for Ducklings

    Make Way for Ducklings

    As a child, one of my favorite picture books was Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey. Really… Okay, am I giving away too much? Probably. That’s the way of the storyteller! There was something about those illustrations — simple unselfconscious line drawings halfway between representational sketches and cartoons — that captivated me, that compelled…

  • Hickory Hill and Rosslyn

    I recently happened on this antique postcard of the Ross Mansion (aka Hickory Hill) which was built by the brother of W.D. Ross, Rosslyn’s original in the early 1820s. Hickory Hill still presides handsomely at the intersection of Elm Street and Church Street. I’m still sorting out the Ross family tree, intricately woven into the history…

  • Meadowmount and Rosslyn

    What a pleasure to discover on Monday morning that the newest friend of the Rosslyn Redux Facebook page was Steven Rochen. Who you might ask? (Though, if you’re a Meadowmount School of Music alum, you probably already know!) Mr. Rochen first crossed my radar back in February of this year when I happened upon an…

  • Farmhouse Furniture Wax: Green Product with a Nostalgic Feel

    Farmhouse Furniture Wax: Green Product with a Nostalgic Feel

    We’ve had good luck with using Earth Friendly Products’ Furniture Polish on unsealed wood such as cherry and walnut furniture that hasn’t been varnished, lacquered, etc. Because the grain is open and receptive to oil, the furniture polish works nicely to brighten the natural pigments and grain while maintaining the requisite moisture in the wood.…