A trustee at Winterthur since he retired from DuPont sixteen years ago, Millard now serves as vice chairman of the board and is there three days a week. A member of the Wilmington Country Club, he likes going there for lunch and finds his Country House location is perfect. I can walk to both places. In fact, talking with the Gambles, it's easy to see that despite being surrounded by fields and trees, Methodist Country House residents can and do make good use of civilization. We're not far from the hubs.
Location is persuasive.
She lived in Wilmington years ago and wants to be here again. And then there's the one where they took a houseboat up the river into Borneo, alone except for a crew. This has been going on for decades and has continued in the three years since they moved to a cottage at Country House. Most recently they flew to Iceland for a long weekend with their granddaughter's high school science class. Traveling as much as they do, Tom and Eleanor nevertheless have a life in Wilmington, too.