"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it." --Oscar Wilde
My experiences in saving the Van Dyke farm left me with a burning question, “why does it have to come to this much effort to save something."
The Pulda Farm in North Brunswick and the Van Dyke farms are great examples of historic preservation, which both took great efforts to succeed.
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Every now and then over the past few years, I find myself traveling through town and stopped in my tracks by an old house suddenly undergoing a restoration.
It started with the Lake House on Ridge Road by the Doubletree Hotel. I was driving by the home and there was work happening on the property.
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The same experience happened to me while passing the Higgins house on Route 27, which eventually became Onsen for All; and the old schoolhouse on Ridge Road, which became an Art Gallery.
Examples of historic houses being renovated with an emphasis on structural integrity. Someone was restoring my faith, some unnamed company or person slowly transforming these houses before my eyes.
Finally after writing one of my columns I received a comment email, always exciting for me, and the writer knew who was restoring the homes: it was her husband!
