UD‘s Aunt Delores, who died recently, lived in a strange house. It was enormous. It stood on a hill overlooking a big highway in Pikesville, Maryland, near Baltimore. She had sheep. She had a shepherd.
It’s been years since UD was there, but she remembers the complicated, rambling interior and exterior of the place pretty well…
Or does she? UD will have a chance to do a little memory experiment this weekend, when she and various other ‘thesdan family members will drive to the house and have a look around.
She can certainly expect lots of changes. It’s this year’s Baltimore Symphony Associates’ Directors’ Show House. It’s been “re-imagined by 20 interior designers and 4 landscape designers.” Ten thousand people are expected to visit.
UD will chronicle her visit here, at University Diaries.
May 19th, 2010 at 9:13AM
You don’t mean GERMAN Shepherd–you mean an actual human? Maybe it was this guy?
Alyssa’s grandmother’s house went through the same transformation a few years ago here in York. I am constantly amazed at the kinds of things these designers do with a single room. Often times they are gaudy but every now and then I get to a room that makes me pine for a benefactor.
May 19th, 2010 at 9:22AM
I never met him. All I know is that my Aunt Ronnie always referred to “Bill, the shepherd,” who lived in a cottage near the house.