Decatur Old House Fair — Right Up Our Hallway!
This may come as a shock to you, but the Wren’s Nest is more than a National Historic Landmark celebrating literature, folklore, and African American history. It is also an old house.
A surprising (to me, I guess) number of visitors come here just as eager to discuss 100-year-old window panes as they do the work of Joel Chandler Harris. Living in an old house is a unifying factor, I tell you what, and Lain and I are in the know. (Let me just say that space heaters become really, really important.)
Which is why we’re so excited about the second annual Decatur Old House Fair on March 6th. The fair brings together experts in repair and maintenance, design, energy efficiency and historic research with owners of old houses and the likes of you and me.
Last year’s fair — with the awesome tagline “The Greenest House is the One Already Built” — yielded our relationship with Tom Bretherton, who ended up installing our windows during our restoration.
In fact, Lain had such a great time he’s now on the 2010 volunteer committee. If joining a committee isn’t a sign of love, I don’t know what is.
Added bonus: one of our Board members, Ken Thomas, is co-leading the “Researching Your Old House and What Style is My House?” seminar. Yay Ken!
Hope to see you there!
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Amber Suitt
Program Director
Lain Shakespeare
Executive Director
2 Comments to Decatur Old House Fair — Right Up Our Hallway!
I’m jealous – the Old House Fair in Boston ran for a number of years but hasn’t been held for the last few. Last year’s tagline, “the greenest house is the one already built,” sums up my sentiments precisely. The pushing of “green” to market new home building makes my head pound. And “love the house you’re in” is certainly another timely slogan.
Liz
Of course, my interest is discovering more about my old house unfortunately the line to “Researching Your Old House…” appears broken.