Description
Faced with the sale of the century-old circle of relatives summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt returned for one last stay together with his wife and kids. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for 5 generations interweaves Colt’s final seek advice from with memories of a life-time of summers.
Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands now not simplest as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but in addition as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of living.