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A couple from New York builds the contemporary house of their dreams on Tilghman Island, but curious locals wonder: Didn’t they forget something?

A woman who lives a few hundred yards across the road has a good view of the house my wife, Jane, and I built on Tilghman Island. She tells us that she monitored the construction closely. “I kept wondering when they’d put on… continued

GARDEN

A Centreville garden helps keep alive the memory of a beloved wife and mother.

As landscape architect Barbara Paca read the two-page, handwritten letter from Bob Simmons, she crumbled. The letter explained that Simmons’ wife, Marcia, had terminal cancer and wanted to make a garden on their Maryland farm to leave for her daughters. “He said it… continued