![]() ![]() 11 terrorists attacks brought drama and perspective to the Stillmeadow story. We want to make something happen sooner rather than later.''īut, like everything else in America, the events of the Sept. The property meets seven of our eight criteria for conservation. So many things are appealing about the land, not just its connection to a famous author. Moore said: ''This is integral to protecting an amazing piece of land that is really a gem. ''Now is the time to make an offer that will be real attractive, because we can give the money without the conditions put on it by a developer,'' Mr. But the cost of the land itself was the main hurdle. They were impressed enough to commit $250,000 toward the purchase of an easement on the land for the town. Crider invited Anne Colby and a representative from the Trust for Public Land, Elizabeth Moore, to make a presentation to Southbury's selectmen. The Phillips family was integral in offering her a window onto country life she wouldn't have otherwise had.'' If the farm wasn't there, or if it were all woodlands instead, the books would have been completely different. Crider, who has also been inspired by Southbury's natural gifts to write. ![]() ''The Phillips Farm definitely was a major character in her books,'' said Mr. Tom Crider, president of the Southbury Land Trust, became interested in joining the fight to save the Phillips Farm, despite having his hands full with the purchase of the 142-acre Platt Farm. He led a very 19th-century life, though he kept a sharp eye on the 20th century. Saving the Phillips Farm would also be a key to saving the other farms.''Ĭonstance Taber Colby, Gladys Taber's daughter and Anne's mother, said: ''George Phillips was a fascinating character, and he regularly appeared in my mother's books. ''This part of Southbury has no public access to open space and the Phillips Farm is just one of many consecutive parcels that comprise a unique agricultural community, a sort of oasis. ''We wondered, 'Is there something we can do before the land is subdivided?' Because by, then it's too late. ''It started as neighbors meeting in the street, then in living rooms and then by e-mail,'' Ms. These writings not only established her as America's arbiter of all things authentically country, but her gentle musings on the simple life and her wholly ungentrified approaches to the seasons, gardening, cooking, raising livestock and breeding cocker spaniels helped the country get through the Great Depression, partly by following Mrs. Taber's popular monthly columns in Ladies Home Journal and Family Circle magazines, and later, in more than 50 books set and written in Southbury. Stillmeadow was the ''main character'' in Mrs. She is buried here, too, in the graveyard of Southbury Congregational Church. Taber's farm, her 17th-century farmhouse, the village of Southbury and the surrounding countryside became her writerly muses, beginning in 1931, when she moved up from Manhattan, and continuing until her death at age 81 in 1980. Her home base was Stillmeadow, an agricultural enclave on Sanford Road in the southeastern corner of Southbury. LONG before Martha Stewart made the suburbs safe for country chic, Gladys Taber ruled the rural roost in Connecticut. ![]()
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