Mysterious Ways

Our Christmas Cabins

Before heading to the hospital, I gazed out the living room window at the property surrounding our home in Ohio. With its 10 acres of farmland, gardens and pioneer cabins, folks called it a “primitive wonderland.”

Bill and I had rebuilt our lives here after a fire burned our former home to the ground.

For 20 years, we’d welcomed visitors interested in the early American way of life. We scoured New England for authentic log cabins, and Bill rebuilt them on the property to house things we offered for sale at Curry’s

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