Animated Sketch of Lolly Willows cabin

Architect: Keone Maher Music: Feuillets Inedits by Messiaen for the ondes Martenot, a favorite instrument of Jonny Greenwood

Directions to Lolly Willows in Barton, Vermont

Lolly Willows is 55 acres of mountaintop off May Pond Road in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, about 15 minutes south of the Canadian border.

Closest Airport: Burlington International (BVT)

Closest Train: The Amtrak "Vermonter" to Waterbury, Vermont

Driving Directions

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree

Keone Maher, the architect/builder of Lolly Willows, is in China on a "framespotting" tour from April 5th - 17th with the Timber Framers Guild. See details about the trip.

"Pa, maybe brother Hanson would like to hear some music."

Appalachian folk song "Pretty Saro." The singer Sam Amidon lives in New York and was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. Also see his Lonesome Cowboy video.

Taking the Mystery out of the Outhouse

This video is from Action Island, a private island in Ontario's Georgian Bay, see the blog.

Lolly Willowes by Silvia Townsend Warner

The name Lolly Willows comes from the 1926 novel Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman about a gentle eccentric spinster named Laura Willowes who leaves London for a cottage in the country, where she takes long walks, naps in ditches, gathers herbs for her "brews," and becomes familiar with Pan and the woodland faeries. Lolly Willows is that imaginary place where one goes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner, author of Lolly Willowes, pictured in 1968 with her cat Pericles. She lived in a cottage in Chaldon Village with her partner Valentine Ackland from 1930 to 1969. See: The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society. She wrote eight novels, was a Communist, a lesbian, and a scholar of Tudor Church Music. The novel Lolly Willowes was a best-seller and the first ever selection of the Book of the Month Club in 1926.

Lolly Willows TV

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Careful, 1992 trailer for the film by by Guy Madden


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