Today's slow news day amusement: Rokeby, a 195-year-old, 43-room house in Barrytown, New York, partly designed by architect Stanford White and inhabited by a large and wacky cast of Livingston and Astor family members and their friends and tenants. Not convinced about the wacky bit? "Here, a Polish-born artist studies shamanism in a tiny one-room log cabin with a stone medicine circle; her converted Orthodox Jewish daughter keeps a kosher kitchen in an old pantry and writes a memoir; the daughter’s cousin creates giant puppets for New York City’s Halloween parade in a disintegrating barn." [NYT]
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