53 Woods Road, Port Jervis, NY 12771

You will notice it on the first night cold enough for a jacket, walking back up across the grass toward the house. Lights on upstairs and lights on downstairs, everyone in for the night, everyone with a place of their own to go back to, and nothing left for you to check on. Every person you love is already under this roof, and you will sleep differently for it. Two complete homes here, 4.3 acres around them, and nobody giving up their independence to be close to everyone else. And you want the country, not the idea of it. Lawn falling away toward the trees, fruit trees out in the middle of it, deer at the tree line most evenings, and a red barn of a house up on the rise. In July the fireflies come up out of the grass by the hundred. In October you light the fire ring out back and stay out there until you cannot feel your hands. This is the part of Orange County people mean when they say they remember what it used to be like out here. Inside, the living room runs 40 feet and never...