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Stonehenge settlement discovered

Short video about a newly discovered settlement of the people who built Stonehenge. No relation to the folks who built Carhenge.

Traditional Building Show

The Traditional Building Show is coming back to Boston March 7-10. The conference features a host of seminars geared to homeowners, contractors, architects, and designers interested in restoration. Yours truly will be speaking on Friday, March 9th on "Period Kitchens in Historic Homes." A couple of us from Landmark Services went to Washington last October for this show and found it really worthwhile. Not to be missed: Friday night's pub crawl!

Let us know if you'll be there so we can get together. And if you do attend, make sure to come by our booth.

Don't know much about history...

Sometimes we get so caught up in renovating and restoring historic houses that we forget about the history behind these places. Who built them? Who lived there? What life changes took place inside these walls? We're currently renovating a Greek Revival house in Cambridge, Ma, that was once the home of Margeret Fuller. A contemporary of Emerson and Hawthorne (and possibly more than that. See Susan Cheever's new book on these influential writers), Fuller lived here during a stay at Harvard. I had a synchronistic moment the other day when I left the Fuller House to go to a meeting in Concord. I turned on NPR to hear a discussion with Cheever about the transcendalists, including Fuller, who are so strongly identified with Concord. It was a good reminder to stay in touch with the history behind the houses and churches that we work on. After all, one of the reasons we do this work is to keep the past alive for future generations.