Maggie's Farm

In the early 1950s my parents bought a house of similar size, perhaps larger, for $8,000. It had 3 sections built in different centuries. Different era.

Think I'll pass on it. Moreover, living on the noise of the Post Road does not fit my bucolic ideal.

Would $8000 do? (:
Does it have a basement?

You need to up the marketing campaign. You could pitch it as the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, or near it. Certainly you can find someone who would believe that, such as an old hippie who fried his brain from too many acid trips, or some younger upstanding example of our educational system [certainly not one whom your wife taught].

Or you could stretch the truth a little less and pitch your house as near the Woodstock Fair. Which it is, as the Woodstock Fair is in Woodstock. Everyone rembers the Woodstock Fair- that was where 400,000 youth and musicians banded together in the countryside for a four-day peace and love-in. Country Joe and the Fish, you name it, they were all at the Woodstock Fair.

While I have been to the Woodstock Fair, I didn’t make it to the Woodstock Festival. Altamont had to do that year.

Two from my town made it to Woodstock. A classmate who became an artist who has exhibited in NYC got depressed by the scene, and ended up drawing a lot of feet. A guy a year younger ended up as a cop in a nearby town. Cause and effect?

So is it 1800 SF + the basement? I miss basements. They would be nice and cool in a TX summer. Lordy, lordy, would they be cool. [At least in comparison to 105 degrees outside.]

Coincidentally, the year before the Famous Woodstock [NY] Festival, an English teacher at our high school took a busload of students to see a play at the Woodstock in NY.
Some members of the track team chose to go to the play in Woodstock NY instead of to a track meet. The coach & Senior History Teacher, in his first year teaching at the school but an experienced teacher, kicked them off the track team for having chosen a play over a track meet. The month before, I had quit the track team when he required haircuts, a requirement that was new to the track team. That was the first and last year he coached track.

I imagine the other 12 Woodstocks get asked the same question. After all, yours does. Of course, it is easier to make a mistake one state over than a thousand miles away.