Slightly Abridged (2012)
“Is it a snug place of shelter for weary travelers? A center of rest and refreshment for wanderers far from home? A thing of bricks and mortar, of plaster, wood, and nails?
Or is it rather a state of mind, a hospitable impulse, a fond hope, a well-meant wish? Is it, as Caroline Walsh, proprietor of the Candlewick Inn evidently believed, mostly a house with a name and a telephone listing in the business pages?
Juliet and Murray arrived at the address of the Candlewick to discover a hulking wooden... wreck on a tumbledown lot. By the plentiful street light and the faint light of the moon, they could see that the homes around it were spacious and elegant, their grounds and fences well kept. In this neighborhood, they later learned, at the start of the last century, had lived prosperous owners of factories, powerful local officials. Now the residents were mostly doctors and executives, almost all of whom commuted to Albany daily.
But here also lived Caroline Walsh, native of Gloversville, who had managed from the proceeds of her wholesale novelty company (joy buzzers, false teeth, inextinguishable birthday candles) to put down just enough to purchase the Cormier Mansion, otherwise doomed to the wrecking ball.MoreLess
Or is it rather a state of mind, a hospitable impulse, a fond hope, a well-meant wish? Is it, as Caroline Walsh, proprietor of the Candlewick Inn evidently believed, mostly a house with a name and a telephone listing in the business pages?
Juliet and Murray arrived at the address of the Candlewick to discover a hulking wooden... wreck on a tumbledown lot. By the plentiful street light and the faint light of the moon, they could see that the homes around it were spacious and elegant, their grounds and fences well kept. In this neighborhood, they later learned, at the start of the last century, had lived prosperous owners of factories, powerful local officials. Now the residents were mostly doctors and executives, almost all of whom commuted to Albany daily.
But here also lived Caroline Walsh, native of Gloversville, who had managed from the proceeds of her wholesale novelty company (joy buzzers, false teeth, inextinguishable birthday candles) to put down just enough to purchase the Cormier Mansion, otherwise doomed to the wrecking ball.MoreLess
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