
The perils of publication
A few years ago we gave Judy Condon permission to feature our home in one of her books. Truthfully, we had never heard of her, or seen any of her books on 'country decorated' houses.
After 2 years, we recently received a copy of the book with our home in it. It was awful, and not a book we wanted to be featured in. Most of the photos are now out of date. Antiques were misidentified. We were never contacted and read the final text before printing and were rather horrified at some of the blatant errors, outright made-up 'facts', and misinformation in the article, despite the fact that we provided clear and factual information. There were captions describing things that were not in the accompanying photos. There were statements made as facts, that were entirely made up by the author, such as that I once had a "houseful of 19thc. painted furniture" (untrue), or that "Adam made the fold up shoe foot table" on the kitchen wall! (This piece is actually an 18thc table with original finish!) A 17thc livery cupboard that we have IS the one pictured in John Fiske's book, not one "like it", and we did NOT get our 17thc. bed in "Williamsburg"! We two hand made our beautiful diamond-scribed batten door on the front of our home, but I did not "trace lines" as the author states---Adam painstakingly hand-gouged all of the diagonal lines on the door, and I hand hammered every rosehead nail in place. Sadly, there were many more ridiculous and embarrassing errors, but what was most regrettable was that she wrote that we "have a shop" (we don't---we sell only from our website), and printed our address and phone number. Unfortunately, she also printed the WRONG website address, despite the fact that we gave her the correct one in numerous emails and sent her our cards with the correct site address clearly printed on them.
I guess every time you allow someone to feature you in a book or magazine there is always the risk of this happening, but in the past, we have had some wonderful experiences with top-notch writers and photographers such as Paul Rochleau and Gladys Montgomery Jones. We feel that when you allow photographers or journalists into your home, they have a responsibility to get their facts correct.
We certainly regret our decision in this case, and hope that anyone wanting to see our home, and get to 'know' us will visit our website and blog. The photos here on our own site show our house as it really is. We flatter ourselves that we are very creative, and we have worked hard to create a website that is a TRUE reflection of our lives, our home, and us.
In any case, the two of us are working on OUR OWN book about our home and life, with many photographs. Everything is being done by us. It has been slow going with many other life-concerns that get in the way, but we will be offering 'COME THROUGH A NEW HAMPSHIRE DOORWAY' for sale at some point only on our website.
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Adam and Mary’s 18th century wedding, May 27th, 2007.










