| Three historic homes are available with complete housekeeping: East Wing of the main farmhouse, dating from 1784, has 1-3 bedrooms, 2 baths, a living room, a parlor, a fireplace, a kitchen, and a porch; The Red Schoolhouse (c. 1830) has 2 bedrooms, kitchen, bath, living room, gas fireplace and deck; Lilac Cottage (c. 1800) has 2-3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, kitchen, woodstove and sun deck. The house rates are $140 daily, $700 weekly, and $2200 monthly. 2 nights minimum July-August. The rate for a single room & private bath in the main farmhouse is $80 per night, double occupancy for 2 or more nights or $100 for a single night stay. Open all year. For our farm animals' peace, no pets; also, no smoking please.whose lofty glistening church spire beckons above a distant tree line, ten miles away; talk to the animals our twenty-two sheep (all with names), two horses (Jet and Chief), Crispy Critter (our venerable but still playful Shetland pony) and Ebenezer (our personable donkey); go moose hunting with your camera; go antique-hunting with your pocketbook (loads of shops in historic Hallowell!); find 'culture' at Monmouth's magnificent, high-turreted Victorian summer theater, or Brunswick's summer music theater; swimming, fishing and boating on beautiful clear lakes and streams that surround us (we provide free canoes and kayak rentals); find fabulous mountain climbing, hiking and beaching at close Mount Blue State Park; take easy day trips to our famous coastline; ride up Mount Washington's cog railway; visit Maine's state capital with its award-winning museum, just eighteen miles away; come winter, ski the best of our downhill slopes and well maintained cross-country trails and skate on our farm pond; in leisure moments, curl up in front of a cozy fire and be entertained by an unusual collection of newsy diaries, letters, poetry, published family history and a photographic collection of colorful ancestors who lived here. |
