News about our house
JoAnne has written a great blog post with the story of our purchase of the West Granby parsonage. I invite you to read it. https://inspiredbyhope.us/?p=8646
Hitching Posts At our home in the historic section of West Granby, CT, the old granite hitching posts standing in the rail fence line are immediately obvious. The remaining granite sentinels with their broken rusty metal loop tie hooks remind me of the mid nineteenth century mill origins of this part of West Granby. I …
My wife and I are really enjoying the new look at 8 Simsbury Road. The new siding and windows project is complete. The new windows open so easily to catch a breeze or be cleaned, and they look great. Our bright white house looks renewed as we drive up. We are feeling very blessed …
In my previous post regarding our house at 8 Simsbury Road, I suggested that part of the older house that had been pictured in the Granby Drummer and is shown above had been preserved and reused in the the current structure. At that time I was basing my idea largely on a single piece of …
I enjoy reading the historical column in the Granby Drummer. But this last week I was in for a surprise. I was reading the article about a nineteenth century West Granby resident named Myron Graham. Beside the article was a picture of the house that Mr. Graham had lived in with a small caption reading …