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SERENDIPITY IN NEW JERSEY

The Finegans see the world through 18th-Century eyes, so they’ve stocked their New Jersey farm with heritage sheep and filled their two-story cabin with Revolutionary-era antiques.

THE FRENCH DIFFERENCE

The first French farmers to settle in the fertile Mississippi Valley built cabins with logs but sideways, setting the timbers on end. Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, preserves this unique architecture.

ANTIQUITY REBORN