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Tiny Spaces,

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Features

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14 • atHome with History: The Marsh House 16 • Tiny Spaces, Big Experiences

Columns

4 • atHome with Marcia 6 • Shop Local Guide 9 • Art atHome 12 • Sustainable Living 19 • Pets atHome 21 • Design with Ann Henderson 22 • In the Garden with Leonard Perry

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“It’s a spring fever.

That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want to — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Ah, spring! Can you feel it in the air?” — Mark Twain I remember when we were young and we (and our pets) acted spirited and wild in April and May. It was called “spring fever.” Don’t you feel it in the air now? The birds with their throaty songs, the humus-rich smell of the muddy, growing earth? Doesn’t it just make you want to run outside and start digging in the ground?

Hold up. Before you grab your spade in a flurry of spring fever digging, heed this tip from GardeningKnowHow.com: “Before tilling your soil, you must wait for two things: the soil must be dry enough and warm enough. If you don’t wait for these two things, you may cause more harm than good to your soil and plants.” Sage advice.

So put your gardening tools away until then! And in the meantime, while you are waiting for the ground to warm up, there’s plenty of ways to harness that energy with projects around your home and property. You can buy seeds, start seedlings inside, plan your garden and patio projects, and even do some indoor projects that didn’t get done this winter. Get ideas — and professionals to help you — by turning to our special section, “Spruce up for Spring!” starting on page 23.

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atHOME MAGAZINE ISSUE 25 • SPRING! 2022 PUBLISHER Backporch Publishing LLC FOUNDER/EDITOR Marcia Passos CONTRIBUTORS Amee Abel • Clark Cayer • Ann Henderson Nancy McGartland • Caroline Tremblay PHOTOGRAPHY Kelly Fletcher PROOFREADER Emily Marie Passos Duffy ADVERTISING SALES: jeanne@atHOMEnewengland.com CONTACT US atHome Magazine 16 Russell Street • Keene, N.H. 03431 603-369-2525 marcia@atHOMEnewengland.com www.atHOMEnewengland.com atHome is published four times a year (Spring, Summer, Fall/Holiday and Winter)

by Keene, N.H.-based Backporch Publishing LLC. atHome is a consumer publication that highlights the homes and gardens of residents in tri-state area of New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.

This magazine is copyrighted. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent. The views expressed in atHome magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of its advertisers, publisher or editor. While every effort is made to provide accurate information, neither atHome nor Backporch Publishing LLC assumes responsibility for any errors or omissions.

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The Collaboration Between Trees and Art

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housands of years ago, primitive artists from around the world expressed early forms of art through nature and its vast resources. Today, local artist Jon Brooks is part of a culture aimed at reviving this ancient art form by incorporating the beautiful wood of New Hampshire’s dense forests into his sculptures and furniture.

Born in Manchester, Jon has lived in New Hampshire for most of his life and is a true New England woodsman. In fact, I first met him chopping wood outside of his rural New Hampshire studio. Brooks earned his bachelor’s and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, where he apprenticed under notable artists such as Wendell Castle, widely considered the father of the art furniture movement. Following the footsteps of his mentor, Jon Brooks eventually became a member of the movement and was able to employ his abilities in creating handmade wooden furniture and wooden sculptures. Jon considers his art to be a “collaboration with nature,” and he prides himself in being able to incorporate the immense natural beauty of New England’s forests.

To create a piece of furniture or sculpture, Jon uses the naturally formed hardwood found and harvested in the local forests surrounding his home and studio in New Boston, New Hampshire.

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Art atHome (continued) throughout different types of hardwood, Brooks is able to create furniture and sculptures entirely out of otherwise simple things such as a log or even a bundle of sticks. He claims to be “attracted to the architecture of nature as a compelling dance of control and chaos,” which helps him to cooperate with tree shapes he finds to create a balance of form, function and craftsmanship.

Throughout his 40+ year career, Jon Brooks has earned various accolades for his accomplishments as a leader in The American Studio Furniture Movement. He is considered one of the most adept at his craft as a furniture maker and sculptor. He is highly respected in the movement for his ability to combine craftsmanship, inventiveness and “poetic whimsy.” His work can be found in prestigious galleries such as the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. His work has been featured in exhibitions such as Craft Today, USA European Tour, and the Danish Museum of Decorative Art. Finally, he has taught and lectured about his craft in Penland School

of Crafts in North Carolina, The University of Tasmania, The Haystack School of Crafts and The Center of Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine and Anderson Ranch in Colorado.

Today, Jon Brooks continues to produce and sell work and teach about the American Art Furniture Movement, and can often be found in his studio in New Boston, New Hampshire.

When and how did you learn the skill of transforming the beauty of nature’s materials into handmade structures and furniture?

I started drawing and painting at the Currier Museum of Art School when I was five or six years old. I was self-taught with woodworking and started when I was in the third grade using a carving knife and chisels. In high school art class, I had more access to woodworking tools and training. In college art school, I was professionally trained with all materials and tools as a Fine Arts major, graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a BFA and MFA degree.

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As a child, I loved the forest and spent much of my time there making tree houses and structures from trees. As a full-time studio artist, I love to collaborate with nature, using forest findings and assembling them into shapes that lend themselves to sculpture and furniture.

What has led you to take your skills in art to educate students and aspiring artists about your craft?

I have taught and lectured at many institutions in this country, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. I love to teach part-time and work with students using the above mentioned processes.

Who is your greatest inspiration as an artist?

As a child, I was inspired by the sculpture of Constantine Brâncusi. I also love the work of Anton Gaud, Isamu Naguchi and living artist Martin Puyear.

What was the determining factor that influenced you to make a career out of your craft and collaboration with nature?

There was never any question about what I was to do with my life. It has always been about making art with wood.

How has growing up and living in the natural beauty of New Hampshire provided advantages to your career?

Living in the forest surrounded by 183 acres of conservation land is very satisfying, and I never tire of being here with my wife Jami Boyle and doing the work I do.

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PROBLEM: Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kills as many as a million sea creatures every year!

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PROBLEM:Up to 25% of household waste is yard clipping and food waste.

Solution: Compost yard clippings and food waste to make nutrient rich mulch and fertilizer.

PROBLEM: Packaging represents about 30% of all waste, and most of it is not needed. Ten cents out of every dollar we spend at the grocery store, pays for packaging.

SOLUTION: Purchase products with minimal packaging. Say “No Thanks” to items you’re not going to use, such as napkins, straws, utensils or condiments.

PROBLEM: Household pesticides and herbicides pollute groundwater and kill beneficial insects.

SOLUTION: Use non-toxic alternatives to house and garden pesticides and do not apply near lakes or streams.

PROBLEM: Oil leaks from lawn equipment pollutes ground water.

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The Marsh House

The Marsh House in

an undated photo.

(aka the ‘Dollar House’) Chesterfield, New Hampshire

By Nancy McGartland Photos by Kelly Fletcher

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entered on a hilltop rise of Route 63, surrounded by the warm caramel stone of Chesterfield’s town buildings, the 172-year-old Marsh House flashes oversized multi-pane windows, reflecting the setting sun going down behind the Green Mountains.

Quiet and cold now, this 1850s Carpenter Gothic house is soon to be a lively gathering place as it transforms into a cafe, community center and bed and breakfast under the experienced hands of New England Heritage, LLC. Just a few years ago, this abandoned architectural gem was on the verge of being demolished. How did Chesterfield move away from devoting $30,000 for tear down to selling it for metamorphosis into a new community asset?

As is often the case in New Hampshire, volunteers banded together and, with persuasion, gained the town government’s cooperation. Together they changed the Marsh House’s trajectory into the 21st century.

The Marsh House history The house could be mistaken for a model lifted from the pages of a 19th-century architect’s pattern book: Deep roof eaves, bargeboard, wrap-around porch, all topped by a show-stopping polychromatic floral-patterned slate roof.

And like old houses, mysteries remain: On the rafters above the old carriage house, scratches counting … what? There’s even a “secret” 12x12 bedroom with a hobbit-sized door.

Cornelia “Neil” Jenness, former head of the Chesterfield Historical Society, says the house was probably built by F.P. Wetherell, who occupied it for many years, according to an 1858 town map. In 1892, H.C. Marsh bought the house, where he practiced medicine, Jenness suspects, because the house’s second floor has “interesting” refurbishments like a bumped-out window “porch” to accommodate his practice. Around that time, Jenness surmises, the house was “spruced up” with popular Victorian Gothic touches: its elaborate yet delicate gingerbread, shapely roof finials, and distinctive floral-inspired slate roof. As noted by Kris McKeon, another town volunteer, in her blog, such touches were too expensive for most New Hampshire homeowners who stuck to plainer Greek Revival styles.

However, the Marsh family had the money to invest in such detail. They were the “modern-minded people” sought by architects like A.J. Dowling in his 1850 pattern book.

In it, you can see an almost mirror-image of the Carpenter Gothic cottage. At that time, across the street from the house, H.C.’s brother Charles Marsh had a dry goods store.

Soon he and another brother, Benjamin, would become partners with Eben Jordan in the legendary, enormously successful Boston department store, Jordan-Marsh.

Volunteer Kris McKeon notes, “These men, Benjamin and later his younger brother Charles Marsh and Eben Jordan started Jordan Marsh before their 30th birthdays.”

After the Marsh family, other families lived in the Marsh House; it even held a dental practice. Eventually, in the

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The Marsh House in 2017

being sold for $1

1970s, it was occupied by the police department and, until 2007, other town offices. Then it was abandoned as the town built new town offices. From 2007 to 2017, the house decayed as the town lost interest in maintaining it.

The ‘Dollar House’ At the 2017 Summer Town Meeting (held to accommodate Chesterfield’s large summer population), Jeff Scott, a longtime resident and preservation enthusiast who helped restore the Chesterfield Gorge, asked permission to clean out the house and offer it for sale for $1. The open house attracted 60+ attendees. Unfortunately, the only offer for the house fell apart.

In 2018 when an article for a $30,000 demo fund was added to the Town Warrant, the volunteers made up two very large picture posters, showing clearly the “before and after” views of the Marsh House site if the house were to be demolished. That convincing visual showing what the loss would look like, paired with the fact that most townspeople didn’t want to spend more tax dollars on the house, turned popular sentiment towards preservation.

In 2019, the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance added the Marsh House to its famous “Seven to Save” annual list after a presentation by Chesterfield’s determined volunteers.

In 2020 the pandemic stopped all open houses.

In 2021, Kris McKeon posted the house on the wildly popular site CheapOldHouses.com. She wrote an accessible and extensive blog with many detailed pictures. In response, the group got about 100 inquiries and five serious proposals that

Photos, this page: Marsh House today. Lots of work, but lots of potential. they brought to the Selectboard.

A bid by New England Heritage, an adaptive reuse company, won out. They propose to turn the Marsh House into a multi-use building, with a cafe on the first floor and a B&B on the second floor. New England Heritage (NEH) will own and manage the property. A separate entity will run the cafe. They estimate the project will employ about five people.

Their proposal also states that “(p)arking, well, and septic all remain the same.” The town granted the company a 99 year lease for the house’s land. Chesterfield Selectboard Chair Gary Winn told the Brattleboro Reformer that “New England Heritage has the experience to do the work … to get (the house) back into shape.”

Dylan Eastman of Winchester and Gabriel Jones are the founders of NEH. Eastman says, “We have extensive experience in older buildings and adaptive reuse throughout the region and country. We have transformed a dozen houses nationwide over the past decade that spanned abandoned ranchers in Idaho to timber frames in the South and Pacific Northwest. Locally, I spearheaded the design and transformation of the distillery and adjacent buildings in downtown Winchester as well as Andy’s Cycle shop into Montshire Pediatric Dentistry in Keene.”

Eastman also runs Monadnock Design Studio and Keene3D, which does virtual tours of real estate. And Eastman, who has lived in Winchester since 2016 was hired as the design and build manager for HGTV’s “A Very Brady Renovation,” and also spent eight years working with both the DIY Network and HGTV on various renovation shows, including “House Crashers,” “Rescue My Kitchen” and “Desperate Landscapes.”

New life for the dollar house Inside, the Marsh House is light and airy, with 12-foot ceilings and many windows. The back parlor’s large bay window used to have a match on the other side of the house, as can be seen by its carefully preserved outline, almost a parquet design, in the maple flooring. An enlargement of that room engulfed that twin bay. That large room and the back parlor will serve as the main dining areas for

the cafe. Matching sidelight doors on either side of the house are also twins. Lots of light and easy access to the outdoors were very important to Victorians like the Marshes.

Tattered and torn layers of wallpaper — full-blown white magnolias or red and blue bachelor button flowers — among other prints, tell a colorful story of the house’s many eras. They covered the surprisingly intact horsehair plaster and lath walls; only the woodwork was painted.

Eastman says they will frame wallpaper remnants to hang as art in the cafe. What had been used as a kitchen in the back of the house will be turned into a commercial kitchen for the cafe.

Plans for the cafe menu are still fluid but will include light food but “no fryer,” Eastman jokes. The main rooms will be dining areas. The central staircase, with its strikingly graceful curved staircase will house the B&B’s console desk.

Will Marsh House host events, like small weddings or anniversaries? Sarah Jones of NEH notes, “Events aren’t our main focus; we would love to someday host events like weddings, anniversaries, book clubs, and such. While we are a business, we are also a part of the community and want to meet the needs of our neighbors as much as we can.”

Upstairs will be a one-bedroom B&B for rent, with a living room, kitchen, bath. NEH’s Naomi Risch says, “The B&B will sleep two, with the potential option for four with a pull-out sofa, but we will be marketing the space to couples looking for a romantic getaway.” Handily, there’s a romantic long view west all the way to the Green Mountains and Mount Snow, complete with sunsets.

Marsh House as community center NEH will work with the Chesterfield Farmers’ Market and Old Home Days to facilitate their use of the house, especially the front room, front porch, yard, and part of the former Carriage House, which may be turned into a “sundries store” to sell locally made products.

The half dismantled wrap-around porch is being reconstructed with fir to match the original wood used. It and an adjacent smaller front room will be open for use by the Chesterfield Farmers’ Market and during the town’s Old Home Days.

This is extremely important to Eastman and NEH. As Eastman told the Keene Sentinel, “Everything about this building makes it pivotal to being a community asset. For starters, it is the town’s property. In order to be good stewards of the space, that should be reflected in the end-use which must involve the community.”

Eastman says, “Since the building transfer last summer, we have been working on plans for the cafe as well as correcting areas of the building that have gone neglected over the past decade. Gabriel and I are finishing a large project in Henniker.”

The transformation of Marsh House will be in full swing with “major work commencing late spring and through the summer.”

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It started as kind of a crazy dream ,

and honestly, it still is one. As far back as 20 years ago, Robert Patton-Spruill was into the idea of tiny houses. He even bought the prototype for an early one called the Tumbleweed House. He parked it in his Boston driveway, and it provided a place to stay for relatives, area veterans, and locals who were without homes.

But this was way before tiny homes were in vogue, and in terms of creating a rental business, “there was just no way to market it and get it happening,” Patton-Spruill says.

However, in 2007, something amazing happened. “We got really lucky,” he says.

Patton-Spruill and his wife Patti Moreno are the owners of New England Sweetwater Farm & Distillery in Winchester.

At their home, Patton-Spruill, who is also a film producer, director, and a now-retired film professor, started creating footage of Moreno while she was gardening.

“We were able to parlay that into a pretty big gig working for HGTV,” he explains.

The couple’s first job was shooting the major TV network’s giveaway homes that they create each year.

“We would see what some of the best designers in the country would do, and we would photograph it in detail,” Patton-Spruill decribes.

Not only was it incredible to get the inside scoop, but the job was also quite lucrative. That’s when they decided to open the distillery, which produces handcrafted spirits that capture the flavor of the region.

“In the process of doing that, I just started to have a lot of fun building stuff,” Patton-Spruill says. He and Moreno put up tourist cabins at their farm and just kept going. They bought a building in Keene where they tried spinning it into a rental and experienced success.

Not long, the property two doors down, a 700 squarefoot home, went up for sale, and they grabbed it. They also acquired a waterfront property with two 400 square-foot cottages in Orange, Massachusetts.

So what suddenly enabled them to launch these tiny rentals? Airbnb. The company’s niche has been a perfect match for Patton-Spruill’s original dream.

“Airbnb’s real place in the world isn’t replacing the hotel experience,” he says. “Airbnb at its best is really about providing experiences.”

So that’s what he and Moreno, a professional designer, aim to create with each of their tiny rentals.

“We look at each project and think: What experience can we deliver that might be unexpected?” he says. For example, take one of their first projects, the Writer’s Retreat, a 400 square-footer.

The duo transformed the inside with salvaged barnboard and attached an upcycled metal roof on the ceiling.

Patton-Spruill says they focused on using materials that would “harken to another age.” They also searched for an exceptional desk and created a little deck so guests would be able to write outdoors.

“We filled the place with as many books as we could reasonably get in there,” he says with a laugh. And it worked.

“We keep exploring new and cool themes, and that’s really fun,” he says.

There’s also the Handerson House in Keene, a historic property that he and Moreno approached with care because

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Big Experien it was one of their earliest attempts.

“We didn’t want to change a lot off the bat,” he says. The house was originally built by a man named Phineas Handerson, one of Keene’s first lawyers. “He was known as the happiest man in town,” Patton-Spruill says.

The Handerson family intermarried with the Faulkner family, and both “did amazing things throughout Keene and all around the world really,” Patton-Spruill notes. For instance, Barry Faulkner, born in Keene in 1881, was one of the foremost mural artists of his generation.

His murals can still be seen locally at Keene State College, the Historical Society of Cheshire County, and Bank of America at Central Square in Keene. A downtown mural depicting Faulkner was also painted in tribute to the talented artist during the Walldogs festival in 2019.

With so much history, Patton-Spruill and his wife decided to go for a classic New England feel in the house, though they did branch out a bit in the carriage house above the garage.

“Patti’s from New York City, so we said. ‘Let’s build a New York-style loft in here,’” Patton-Spruill says.

Decorated with art by Banksy and other statement styles, it became quite a fun stay that guests really enjoy.

Around the corner, the Airbnb adventures continue at a unique property with four single-family cottages in the back.

Patton-Spruill had his eye on the place for nearly two years, repeatedly approaching the owner before he agreed to sell.

After much thoughtful renovation and inspiration, it is now home to several individual Airbnb stays.

“They look like really small, vinyl-clad, old New Englander cottages. But on the inside, we turn them into this whole new thing, and that’s what’s fun about it,” Patton-Spruill says.

One is The Art Gallery, which comfortably sleeps six people amidst a plethora of art books and gallery walls.

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Top: View from the ‘Writers Retreat’ Airbnb. Right (top to bottom): Kitchen and dining room at the ‘Carriage House’ Airbnb. Bedroom at the book-filled Airbnb ‘The Book Nook.” Bedroom at the art-filled ‘Art Gallery’ Airbnb.

Photos courtesy Alejandra Spruill and 360Monadnock.com

Around each corner, guests come upon works by Murray Ngioma, the photographs of Joey Kolbe, signed prints

by Shepard Fairey, and Moreno’s own fiber art. “Deek Diedricksen came and ‘deeked’ up the kids’ room too!” the description says. Other featured art is in the style of Picasso, Basquiat, Keith Haring and Banksy.

Hop over to the second cottage, and you’ll find The Rocket Ship stay, which Patton-Spruill says “is named after a piece of sculpture a friend of mine built out of a ‘57 Cadillac.” The remarkable rocket hangs above the living room.

“Really I bought a house for a sculpture,” Patton-Spruill says with a laugh.

While each place has its own great story, perhaps one of the best goes along with the most recent cottage they tackled, The Book Nook. A few years ago, a problem arose at another property Patton-Spruill and his wife own on West Street in Keene. Home to a former bookstore, the property was being vacated because the owner was moving into assisted living.

But her family was trying to figure out how exactly to clear out the thousands of books inside so they could end the lease. They happened to approach Moreno on her husband’s birthday. Little did they know that each year, as his gift, she would buy him a few used books. This year, she had a better idea. She gave the fretting renters a lump sum to turn the store over to her with the books still inside so she could surprise Pat-Spruill with the entire collection.

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“I basically got like 7,000 books — huge collections of New Hampshire history, sports books from the 1950s, everything,” he describes.

And then came the next great idea — to build the ultimate book house as an Airbnb stay. From the bathroom walls to the kitchen cabinets, there are titles stuffed Corner view at the ‘Art Gallery’ everywhere.

Airbnb. Photo by 360Monadnock.com “Where are you going to rent a house where you can read all day and all night and not get through half a room?” Patton-Spruill poses.

The Book Nook is officially listed now and ready for people to enjoy, whether they’re work-from-home folks checking out a new locale or people hoping to move to the area and renting in the meantime. The world shifts and changes, Patton-Spruill says. But whatever their reason for travel, the people landing in these Airbnb stays are in for a unique Monadnock Region experience.

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Mud season

brings lots of cleaning challenges to the pet-owning household. Grooming your dog is more than just an aid to keeping the house clean. It’s health and welfare care for your animals.

Daily tasks include feeling for lumps, bumps, ticks, and sticks that may be hiding by their fur. At least once a week, grooming should consist of handling all four paws, checking toenails are unbroken and running a brush through their fur so you can keep their skin healthy. Dogs with longer fur will need a brush suited to their type of fur to avoid having the fur tangle into tight lumps (called matted fur) that pinch the skin and can cause injury. Once the fur has matted, it must be carefully cut away, leaving your dog with a very odd-looking haircut. If you are unsure how to care for your dog’s coat, ask your breeder or groomer for advice.

Katie Heikkila, the owner at Monadnock Canine Center in Wilton, NH, says, “In the grooming business, we know that a dog who is groomed regularly see it as normal; the dog who is rarely groomed see it as punishment.” Dogs like things they are familiar with, so the more “normal” you can make their grooming experiences, the easier it is for them and you.

Your dog’s ability to cooperate with grooming starts with familiarity with the sounds and sensations they will experience. Too often, we forget to break apart the grooming experience into small enough bits for our four-footed friends to manage. This is true whether you’re doing the grooming at home or bringing your dog to one of the many talented groomers we are fortunate to have in the Monadnock region.

I simplify grooming by training my dogs to cooperate with some basic tasks. For example, I teach my dogs to

These pups had way too much fun in the mud!

Turn the page to see how well they cleaned up > stand still, to let me touch them all over, and to let me hold their paws. We practice these skills often, and I reward them lavishly.

Preparing for professional grooming

Depending on how much you enjoy bathing and brushing your dog (most of us don’t), professional grooming should be a regular part of your dog’s care. Toenails need to be trimmed every 2-4 weeks, and house dogs should be bathed at least quarterly. (More like every eight weeks if they sleep in your bed.)

If you have a young puppy, introduce them and yourself to your local groomer. Every groomer I spoke to was happy to welcome a puppy visitor. All ask that you call first to set up an appointment. Generally, this intro visit isn’t to have anything done — just to let your puppy experience the sounds and smells of the grooming shop. Bring lots of yummy treats that you and the grooming staff can share with your puppy. This is a great activity for puppies between 10 and 14 weeks of age!

At DogGone Beautiful in Keene, NH, owner Samantha Newell says the best thing owners can do is “desensitize their puppy’s feet. Just get them used to being handled.” She further suggests that owners “don’t cut puppies’ nails themselves unless they really know what they are doing.” Dogs’ toenails have both the dead part that can be trimmed painlessly, and as you get closer to the paw, the quick of the nail does hurt and bleed if you cut it. Obviously, a dog whose toenail is cut too short will be very leery of letting anyone trim their nails again.

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This advice isn’t limited to puppies. If your older dog isn’t a fan of grooming, today is a good day to start changing their opinion. By doing a bit of grooming every day, your dog will become more comfortable with it, which will allow you to do more. Skeptical about how your dog will adapt to professional grooming? Make an introduction appointment with your groomer. Most of all, remember keeping your pet clean helps them stay healthier and keeps your home cleaner.

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Get started: ‘stand still’ for grooming

Smear a half-teaspoon of peanut butter (check that you’re using a brand that does not have Xylitol sweetener in it!) as thinly as you can across a flat plate. Bring the plate, your brush, and the dog to a quiet location in the house where you plan to groom your dog. Put the plate on the ground and as soon as the dog begins licking the peanut butter, begin gently brushing the dog. Brush for as long as the dog is standing still eating the peanut butter. Stop as soon as the dog looks up from the plate.

Each day, you’ll brush a bit longer — occasionally adding a bit more peanut butter when needed.

Amee Abel is a certified professional dog trainer and the owner of Abel Dog Training, LLC in Keene, NH. She and her three well-groomed dogs frequently compete in Rally, Obedience, Musical Freestyle, and Tricks and occasionally Agility. She teaches both good manners and dog sports classes, offering individual in-home lessons and classes at Monadnock Humane Society.

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encourages owners to gradually step into the grooming routine at her shop. “I like to do a meet and greet with new puppy clients where the puppy comes and stays for under an hour (no charge) to get a chance to explore the shop and watch another dog being groomed. About a week or two later, they stay a bit longer, and we do nails, ears, and a little cleanup and brushing for a small charge. After that, they’ll be ready to come back for a full groom.”

In Swanzey, NH, Chebacco Kennel’s Haley Ruyffelaert loves to welcome puppies from 10 weeks and up for “starter” grooms.

She says, “it gives the puppies a chance to be exposed to the grooming process. Puppies take less time to groom because they’re small, and we can cuddle them while we groom, so they’re comfortable.” Ruyffelaert says she advises all her dog owners to “teach your dog to stand, and practice touching and holding your dog’s feet (one at a time) while your dog is standing.”

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Metamorphosis of the Butterfly Chair This classic design can flitter from apartment seating to museum-quality furniture with ease.

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rom the early 1940s until current times, the Butterfly Chair has enjoyed a rich history and ubiquitous presence in furniture design. A quick look online will bring almost identical images of Butterfly Chairs ranging in price from $39 to $3,000. Very little has been added or changed over the years, perhaps only reinterpreting the design in nylon and aluminum, thus creating the even more universal folding camp chair seen at every picnic, soccer field or tailgate.

The history of the chair tracks art history’s modernism from Paris to Argentina to the United States. Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy met while working in the architectural studio of Le Corbusier in Paris. Wanting to bring the modernist doctrine back home, Juan and Jorge enticed Antonio to move to their home city, Buenos Aires, where they founded the architectural studio

Grupo Astral. In 1938 the firm worked with Le Corbusier on an apartment building in Buenos Aires. Conceived for this project, the chair was described as “an easy chair for siesta sitting.”

The chair was, in fact, an adaptation of the J.B. Fenby folding campaign and camp chair patented in 1881. Fast forward to 1929, when Ludwig Meis Van Der Rohe and Lily Reich unveiled the Barcelona Chair at the German Pavilion for the International Expo of that year. Ergonomic, sculptural, minimalist, this chair also influenced the Grupo Astral designers to deconstruct even further with their Butterfly design.

The design was fun, organic, portable, comfortable and impossibly improper. For women, it was an opportunity to demonstrate liberated views as pants were the only comfortable way to navigate getting in and out of the sling.

In 1934 the Butterfly chair continued on its seeming-

ly rarefied trajectory when Edgar Kaufman Jr bought three to bring to the United States. One was given to his parents as a housewarming for their new Frank Lloyd Wright home, Falling Water.

The other was brought to the Museum of Modern Art where Kaufman was director of industrial design. He described the chair as one of the best efforts of Modern Chair Design.

Ironically the creators of the chair received only $11.49 in profit from the entire effort.

Knoll picked up production of the chair in the 40s but could not seem to control the desire and ease of the knock-off competition. It was estimated that over 5 million copies of the chair were created in the 50s in the United States alone. After unsuccessfully defending their licensing agreement in a lawsuit in 1948, Knoll decided to give up the fight that seemed inevitable: the public could not get

enough of these chairs.

The Butterfly chair can still flitter from apartment seating to museum-quality furniture with ease. Done in leather, the original chair is cordoned off in MoMa; done in printed canvas, it is on the floor at Walmart. At less than 24” deep, few chairs offer such comfortable sitting in such a tidy footprint. What chair can pull off an elegant cut velvet with equal aplomb as a quirky, colorful print?

Let’s face it: the chair is at home everywhere.

As we change to the spring season and venture outside, let’s all have some fun searching for these beautiful butterflies. They will no doubt make us smile and feel like settling in with a good read.

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In the Garden

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Grays or silvers are more calming.

k When combining colors, use adjacent ones on the color wheel such as green and blue, or blue and violet. These create interest, yet are more serene than contrasting opposite colors such as blue and yellow. k Similar to color, avoid large contrasts in other design principles such as heights and textures. Plants of a more uniform height are more soothing than big ones next to little ones. Texture is the visual appearance plants create, such as a fine texture from tiny leaves or ferns, or coarse texture from large leaves such as castor bean.

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ANTIQUES/VINTAGE Laurel & Grove 83 Grove St. Peterborough, NH 03458 603-924-4288 laurelandgrove.com ARCHITECTS KCS Architects 310 Marlboro St. Keene NH 03431 603-439-6648 kcs-architects.com ART Brattleboro Clayworks 532 Putney Road Brattleboro, VT 05301 802-254-9174 brattleboroclayworks.com

K+J Dean Builders, Inc. 20 Pine St. Swanzey, NH 03446 603-499-3561 kandjbuilders.com Monadnock Millwork 1 Railroad Cir. W. Swanzey NH 03446 603-352-3207 monadnockmillwork.com CABINETRY North Country Door PO Box 13 Cornish Flat, NH 03746 603-469-3476 ncdoor.com Vermont Custom Cabinetry 5 Dunning Land North Walpole, NH 03609 802-463-9930 x223 vermontcustom cabinetry.com

Eye Feast Art PO Box 156 Dover, NH 03821 603-740-2900 eyefeastart.com

DESIGN/SURVEY Huntley Survey & Design 659 West Road Temple, NH 603-924-1669 huntleysurvey.com

BAKERIES Orchard Hill Breadworks 121 Old Settlers Road Alstead, NH 03602 603-835-7845 orchardhillbreadworks.com

EDUCATION Dublin Christian Academy 100 Page Road Dublin, NH 03444 603-563-8505 dublinchristian.org

BIDETS Blass Bidet PO Box 174 Townshed, VT 802-444-3014 blassbidet.com

Gathering Waters Chartered Public School 98 South Lincoln St. Keene, NH 03431 603-733-8701 gatheringwaterscharter.org

BUILDING/ CONSTRUCTION CARPENTRY/ REMODELING Chris Parker Building & Restoration 4657 Coolidge Hwy. Guilford, VT 05301 802-257-4610 oldbuildingfix.com Creations in Stone 147 S Winchester St Swanzey, NH 03446 603-357-2260 creationsinstone.com Eco-Logical Building Solutions 27 Frost Hill Road Marlborough, NH 03455 603-876-4040 ecologicalbuilding solutions.com Finn Property Maintenance 21 Sugar Hill Road Swanzey, NH 03446 603-892-1192 finnproperty maintenance.com

Mountain Shadows School 149 Valley Road Dublin, NH 03444 603-563-8170 mountainshadows school.com EDUCATION/COUNSELING MCVP: Monadnock Center for Violence Prevention 12 Court St. Keene, NH 03431 603-352-3844 MCVPrevention.org ELDER CARE Campbell House/ Wayne’s Place 164 Old Springfield Rd. Charlestown, NH 03603 603-826-0840 Home Healthcare Hospice & Community Services 312 Marlboro St. Keene NH 03431 603-352-2253 hcsservices.org

Scott-Farrar at Peterborough 11 Elm Street Peterborough, NH 03431 603-924-3691 scott-farrar.com

GARDEN/LANDSCAPING Achilles Agway Six Locations achilleagway.com

EVENTS Gallery Walk Downtown Brattleboro www.gallerywalk.org

Coll’s Garden Center & Florist 63 North St. Jaffrey, NH 03452 603-532-7516 collsgardencenter.com

Historical Society of Cheshire County 246 Main St., Keene, NH 603-352-1895 hsccnh.org

DS Stone & Garden Scapes Greenfield, NH 03047 603-769-7173 dsstoneandgardenscapes.com

Horatio Colony House 199 Main St., Keene NH 603-352-0460 horatiocolonymuseum.org

Ecoscapes 121 Pond Brook Road W. Chesterfield, NH 03466 603-209-4778

EVENT VENUES Aldworth Manor PO Box 903 Harrisville, NH 03450 603-903-7547 aldworthmanor.com

Green Acres Irrigation 10 Fredette Drive Lyndeborough, NH 03082 603-472-6707

Cathedral of the Pines 10 Hale Hill Road Rindge, NH 03461 603-899-3300 cathedralofthepines.org FIRE PROTECTION Life Safety Fire Protection PO Box 432 Keene, NH 03431 603-352-0202 lifesafetyfire.com FLOORING Lawton Floor Design 972 Putney Road, Unit 3 Brattleboro, VT 05301 802-254-9303 lawtonfloordesign.com Monadnock Flooring & Decorating Center 1024 Route 12 Westmoreland, NH 03467 603-399-4004 monadnockjingles.com FOOD Allen Bros Farm Market & Garden Center 6023 US 5 Westminster, VT 05158 802-722-3395 allenbrothersfarms.com Monadnock Food Co-op 34 Cypress St. Keene, NH 03431 603-283-5401 monadnockfood.coop FURNITURE Shaker Style Handcrafted Furniture 292 Chesham Road Harrisville, NH 03450 603-827-3340 shakerstyle.com

Maple Hill Nursery 197 West Swanzey Road Swanzey, NH 03446 603-357-2555 maplehillnursery.com Windsock Gardens 4 Sycamore Road Swanzey, NH 03446 603-358-6629 windsockgardens.com INTERIOR DESIGN Ann Henderson Interiors 16 West St. Keene NH 603-357-7680 ahinteriors.com JEWELRY/FINE Hobbs Jewelers 20 Depot St., No. 30, Peterborough, NH 03458 603-924-3086 NHHobbsJewelers.com

POOL/SPA Clearwater Pool & Spa 233 Monadnock Hwy. Swanzey, NH 03446 603-357-5874 clearwaterpoolandspa.net REAL ESTATE Blais & Associates Realtors 32 Monadnock Highway Keene, NH 603-352-1972 blaisrealestate.com Giselle LaScala RE/Max Town & Country 117 West St. Keene, NH 603-357-4100 glascalahomes.com Robin Sanctuary Traditions Real Estate P.O. Box 138 Walpole, NH 03608 603-756-3973 (office) 603-313-9165 (cell) traditionsreal-estate.com RENEWABLE ENERGY Green Energy Options 37 Roxbury St. Keene, NH 03431 603-358-3444 greenenergyoptions.com RESTAURANTS Pickity Place 248 Nutting Hill Road Mason, NH 03048 603-878-1151 pickityplace.com The Pub Restaurant & Caterers 131 Winchester St. Keene, NH 603-352-3135 thepubrestaurant.com

LOCKSMITHING Goodwin’s Locksmithing 4 Elm St. Swanzey, NH 03431 603-252-5625

RETAIL: CLOTHING Hubert’s Family Outfitters Peterborough • Lebanon New London • Claremont 603-863-0659 huberts.com

LODGING/RESTAURANT Hancock Inn/Fox Tavern 33 Main Street Hanock, NH 603-525-3318 hancockinn.com

RETAIL: GIFTS & MORE Creative Connection 56 Main St. Ashburnham, MA 978-827-6211 ccgiftgallery.com

PEST CONTROL Monadnock Pest & Wildlife Services 2 Hatch St. Peterborough, NH 03458 603-554-5717 monadnockpest.com

Gaia’s Blessing 1 Summer St. Peterborough, NH 03458 603-567-7129 gaiasblessingshop.com

PLUMBERS Plumbusters 603-831-0594 plumbusters.net

Joseph’s Coat 32 Grove St. Peterborough, NH 03458 603-924-6683 jocoat.com Knitty Gritty Yarn Shop 16 Depot Street Peterborough, NH 03458 603-924-2028 knittygrittyyarn.com Monadnock Oil & Vinegar 3 Grove St. Peterborough, NH 03458 603-784-5175 monadnockoil andvinegar.com Penelope Wurr Glass 167 Main St. Brattleboro, VT 05301 802-246-3015 penelopewurr.com Periwinkle Flowers 10 School St. Peterborough, NH 03458 603-831-8349 periwinkle-flowers. square.site/ RETAIL: SHOES The Shoe Tree 135 Main St., Brattleboro, VT 05301 802-354-8515 shoetreevermont.com TREE SERVICES Phil’s Tree Services PO Box 432, 34 Dale St. Keene, NH 03431 603-352-0202 philstreeservices.com Wilcox Tree Service 334 Horse Hill Road Marlborough, NH 03445 603-313-0073 wilcoxtreeservice.com UPHOLSTERY Spofford Upholstery Spofford, NH 603-363-8057 WINDOW REPLACEMENT Dave Scobi Quality Vinyl Replacement Windows 30 Old Homestead Hwy Richmond, NH 03470 603-762-1504 WINDOW TREATMENT Budget Blinds of Concord, Hanover & Keene 914-356-5933 budgetblinds/keene

Hannah Grimes Marketplace 42 Main St. Keene, NH 03431 603-352-6862 hannahgrimesmarketplace.com

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