“ I always wanted to live in Vermont, and because I always get my own way, this is where I settled. The first thing I did was plant daffodils - over a thousand. ”
Tasha Tudor in The Private World of Tasha Tudor. She’s so fascinating. She identifies herself as a hedonist… whose idea of pleasure is to raise goats, heat with wood, and make her own clothing from flax, and generally run a 500-acre farm by herself with 1830-level technology. She is, in some very literal ways, an inheritor of Transcendentalism - the dishes she used every day were family heirlooms that had fed Thoreau, Emerson, Daniel Webster and the Alcotts. As you’d expect from a children’s book writer, she can tell wonderful, witty stories in three or four sentences. It’s utterly delicious in company with the photographs, many quite luminous, in this big volume on her life and farm.
