History of place is intertwined with our personal history and influences who we are. We take our experiences of home as children and bring them with us as adults into our relationships with the physical environment, with other people, and with ourselves. We all carry within us the places and spaces of home. The rooms, public areas and private, hallways, doorframes, how we enter and exit; lilacs and the small things of living. "A rich study of gardens, architecture and New England history...combined with a reverie or meditation upon relations and relation (the relation to different spaces and times...) A prose work both lyrical and incredibly engaging to read..." - Bhanu Kapil