Maxine

Maxine Long came by this weekend. (Maxine has Henry on her lap, Quinn is in the Sox cap -- that's a Paw Sox hat on Wavy.) She is the great-granddaughter of the original Shaws, a great-niece of Frank and Nellie Shaw, the operators of Shawmeade during what I think of as the farm's heyday, and cousin to Agnes Shaw and Kay Johnston who grew up here. Maxine lives in New York, so it was a treat to see her!!

Maxine told us that the chicken coops were not where our greenhouses are now, as we had previously thought, but that there were manure piles there, which explains the excellent fertility in that area. (The chicken coops were between the greenhouses and the shed that we use for a farmstand, which the Shaws used as a garage, and the Seidens used as a sheep shed). Also, we had found this cool flat rock by the stream recently, good for hanging out on, and, totally unprompted, Maxine asked us if we had found the flat rock yet. She said as a girl they would go take picnics to the flat rock and hang out, splashing in the stream.