The Dairy Barn, Stillman Estate Our home has an interesting history (which goes a long way in explaining the 'interesting' people that surround us)... we live on what used to be a working farm owned by the locally famous Stillman family. Back in the 1950s our house, a former dairy barn, was converted into the cape cod style house pictured above. Our house is flanked by a former pony barn (now an art studio) as well as a pig barn, carriage, caretaker and nanny's home all updated to house their twentyfirst century occupants. Most of the time the beautiful ambiance and serene setting makes up for the harsh mountain winters and the eccentric neighbors... painting- January 2009 which prompted me to search for a photo I shot of the house in 2004. I was fortunate enough to meet up with one Dennis Harrington who took a bunch of prints of our home and its surroundings and compiled a book for us called Whispering Winds (God's Little Acre).
Cornwall on Hudson, NY- circa 1970
After this old snapshot made its way to us we filed it away for a year or two until my wife decided to have our (Pig Barn) neighbor who moonlights as a painter capture the scene in oils...
Whispering Winds- summer 2004
Never digital- always film, although I must say Dennis did us fine taking those prints and making them into notecards and address labels and meanwhile I do have my eye on a Kodak C 750 which has a digital preview but uses print film.
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