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FROM THE EDITOR
What I eventually tell everyone, and what I told the kids when no more raised hands appeared, is this: I tell true stories. That’s the heart of the job, and why I love it.

FAVORITE FINDS for gift giving
Celebrate the holidays deliciously with artisan chocolate snowman, hand-piped with dark chocolate ganache blended with clementines and dipped in white chocolate. L.A. Burdick Chocolates • burdickchocolate.com.

HOME COOKING with Mary Ann Esposito
Thanksgiving will be different this year as we rethink and reformat how to celebrate it. This holiday has always been about family and friends gathered together from near and far,...

INSPIRATION
“We wanted to make sure we had room for everyone in the family to gather,” Missy Lagarto says. “We have two sons, both of whom were recently married, so we wanted to make sure the home was generational—big...

GARDEN Rx
Add a touch of the tropics to your winter windowsill by growing some begonias this year. There are many types to choose from, ranging from those known for their exotic foliage to those with stunning...

A HOUSE FOR ALL SEASONS
THIS ADIRONDACK HOME WAS THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED FOR THE WHOLE GANG—SIBLINGS AND COUSINS—AND FOR THE LAKE AND THEIR SHARED FUTURE..

TRADITION with a twist on Beacon Hill
Chapin—of Chapin Interiors in New London and Bronxville, New York—doesn’t know why the five-story brick house, built in the early 1900s, was designed with an inverted layout: the kitchen and gathering...

New Life for an Old Barn
DOWNSIZING WITH CREATIVITY AND AN EYE TO PRESERVING THE PAST..

MASTER OF HIS CRAFT
There was a fascination that drew him to the knife. He never cut anything with it or used it—he simply took it out and admired it from time to time.

Ghosts of a Cottage Past
The last time I saw it was forty years ago, but I can still picture it: a two-level, single-family seasonal home built in 1950, white with red trim and a long screened-in porch that ran all the way down one side where my brother and sisters and I...