Category Archives: Speedwell Forge Restoration Project

TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2004

HGTV I exchanged emails with a producer of Restore America on HGTV. Unfortunately they’re no [...]

FRIDAY, MARCH 05, 2004

Incorporation Today we formed Speedwell Forge B&B, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, with Dawn as President [...]

THURSDAY, MARCH 04, 2004

Workshop We just completed a four-day B&B workshop in Santa Barbara. Wow, what an eye-opener: [...]

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 01, 2004

Dawn’s Grandparents Gerald Darlington was an executive at the Hamilton Watch Company; Kathryn was a [...]

TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2004

Paymaster’s Office The willow tree dropped a limb through the Paymaster’s Office. Fortunately, there is [...]

THURSDAY, JANUARY 01, 2004

Watt & Shand We felt we’d cleaned enough where we were comfortable giving tours, so [...]

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2003

Cleaning Most of our Christmas “vacation” was spent cleaning twenty years of collected detritus from [...]

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2003

Historic York We hired Barb Raid of Historic York to handle the National Register nomination [...]

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2003 (part 2)

Chandeliers The mansion has three beautiful chandeliers, and we knew that eventually they had to [...]

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2003 (part 1)

Speedwell Forge Park I mentioned in September that Doug Dinsmore was doing an historic inventory [...]