A place in the country
By: Laura Shaine Cunningham.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Cunningham, Laura -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- Shawangunk Mountains; Country life -- New York (State) -- Shawangunk Mountains; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Shawangunk Mountains (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs; New York (State) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This is Laura Shaine Cunningham's story of her lifelong quest for the perfect country place, a tale anyone who has ever dreamed of a little piece of earth will cherish.".

"Cunningham's excursions into the country ranged from playing chaperone to her uncle at a Catskills resort's singles weekend to an ill-fated role in a wicked 1960s sci-fi movie, filmed "entirely on location" on a decrepit Woodstock chicken farm, before she found herself engaged in hot pursuit of the house of her dreams: scenic, authentic, private, green.

After the requisite real estate dead-ends (the "charmer" tucked behind a nuclear power plant; the creepy retreat of a dead Nazi; the Dutch colonial under the flood plain; houses that "cried internal rain"), Cunningham hit pay dirt with a romantic nineteenth-century stagecoach inn set in the heart of a great estate and bordering a working dairy farm."--BOOK JACKET.