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Everything Is Relative

“THERE WERE a LOT of COMPETING INTERESTS ABOUT HOW to HONOR the PAST WHILE LOOKING FORWARD to WHAT WAS to COME.”
ERIK CHURCHILL, ARCHITECT

Pickering Road runs through a quiet valley outside Philadelphia, winding past fields hemmed by rock walls, barns topped with weather vanes, and stoic stone houses. It’s about as idyllic a country road as you can imagine, and for the Stonorov-Churchill family, it’s a conduit that threads its way through history and memory.

“My parents live a hundred

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