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* ADVENT at FAIRMOUNT *

Port Hope / Ontario / Canada
December 2011
* Winter Solstice *

Fairmount House -- standing since 1858 -- seems to glower in brooding preparedness for the late-arriving Winter of 2012, its acres of beds & fields trussed neatly into silent repose and woodlot groomed to quartermaster trim. Inside, meanwhile, all is radiant and expectant. Amidst happy clutter, the art of lively human engagement and co-operative living is practised on a daily basis by now-octogenarians Tom & Pat Lawson, and fourth son, Graeme -- third-generation custodians of Fairmount -- a family of deep traditions, sharp intelligence, eccentric individualism and evolved values...

* ADVENT at FAIRMOUNT *

Port Hope / Ontario / Canada
December 2011
* Winter Solstice *

Fairmount House -- standing since 1858 -- seems to glower in brooding preparedness for the late-arriving Winter of 2012, its acres of beds & fields trussed neatly into silent repose and woodlot groomed to quartermaster trim. Inside, meanwhile, all is radiant and expectant. Amidst happy clutter, the art of lively human engagement and co-operative living is practised on a daily basis by now-octogenarians Tom & Pat Lawson, and fourth son, Graeme -- third-generation custodians of Fairmount -- a family of deep traditions, sharp intelligence, eccentric individualism and evolved values...

* ADVENT at FAIRMOUNT *

Port Hope / Ontario / Canada
December 2011
* Winter Solstice *

Fairmount House -- standing since 1858 -- seems to glower in brooding preparedness for the late-arriving Winter of 2012, its acres of beds & fields trussed neatly into silent repose and woodlot groomed to quartermaster trim. Inside, meanwhile, all is radiant and expectant. Amidst happy clutter, the art of lively human engagement and co-operative living is practised on a daily basis by now-octogenarians Tom & Pat Lawson, and fourth son, Graeme -- third-generation custodians of Fairmount -- a family of deep traditions, sharp intelligence, eccentric individualism and evolved values...

* ADVENT at FAIRMOUNT *

Port Hope / Ontario / Canada
December 2011
* Winter Solstice *

Fairmount House -- standing since 1858 -- seems to glower in brooding preparedness for the late-arriving Winter of 2012, its acres of beds & fields trussed neatly into silent repose and woodlot groomed to quartermaster trim. Inside, meanwhile, all is radiant and expectant. Amidst happy clutter, the art of lively human engagement and co-operative living is practised on a daily basis by now-octogenarians Tom & Pat Lawson, and fourth son, Graeme -- third-generation custodians of Fairmount -- a family of deep traditions, sharp intelligence, eccentric individualism and evolved values...