This is the New Hampshire house that Dick built seventeen years ago. With Carol's help, and a few subcontractors. We gave up this castle in the boonies around June/July 2006 and moved to South Carolina. See other pic. Brookfarm sits in the center of NH, 1200 feet above sea level on 37 acres of registered tree farm (specimens of maple, oak, birch and white pine not Xmas trees). A ten-acre pond lies in the valley 400' beneath the house, accessed by a mile or so of winding tote road groomed for easy culling of the woods. There we harvested firewood and occasionally valuable crop trees. In these woods lived moose, deer, black bear, bobcats as well as feral tomcats, squirrels, racoons, spiny hedgehogs, seven-striped chipmunks, voles, not to mention all the flora that go with a mature, mixed-hardwood and softwood New England forest. Farewell Brookfarm. May you do as well without us.
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