An Anniversary Celebration In The House They Forgot Who Restored

spent three months restoring, sourcing replacement hardware from a specialty shop in Vermont, hand-sanding every panel until the grain emerged like it had been waiting a century to be seen again.

Vivien didn’t know. None of them knew.

They were about to throw a party in a building full of my fingerprints, and they’d told me I wasn’t welcome to attend.continue reading …