On a Street Called Easy, In a Cottage Called Joye [Uncorrected]
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- Authors
- Smith, Gregory White
- Publisher
- Broadway
- Tags
- etc. , structures , humour , aiken (s.c.) -- buildings , joye cottage (aiken , william c. -- homes and haunts -- south carolina -- aiken. , aiken (s.c.) -- social life and customs. , biography , s.c.) , whitney
- ISBN
- 9780553066814
- Date
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.57 MB
- Lang
- en
When Gregory White Smith and Seven Naifeh stumbled on Joye Cottage, it was love at first sight. They'd just finished their Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jackson Pollack, and were fed up with apartment life in New York City. What better means of escape could there be than the Xanadu-like pleasure palace built by robber baron William C. Whitney a century before? The asking price was a bit steep, of course, and the leaks, the falling plaster, the non-existent heating and air conditioning, and the nineteenth-century plumbing were a bit daunting. But Smith and Naifeh were hooked - and nothing would stop them.
In writing of their three-year struggle to transform their "handyman special from hell" into a home while at the same time adjusting to the small-town rhythms of Aiken, South Carolina, they bring to life an unforgettable cast of characters - the neighbors, craftsmen, merchants, and friends who helped turn a town into a hometown. . . and a dream into a reality.