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Mary Mathias speaks of growing up in privilege in Scarsdale, New York, graduating from Wellesley College, then continuing her education at Brandeis and New York University, where she met and married Robert Houriet. Houriet worked as a reporter in New…

View of Frog Run Farm, first winter

View of Frog Run Farm, first winter

Robert Houriet and daughter Susan, age 8, at Frog Run Farm

Clothes were washed in the river and hung out to dry. Woman pictured is Betty, last name unknown. Eventually they got an old ringer washer - still no electricity in the house, so when they wanted to use the washer, they had to run an extension cord…

Susan Houriet in a field of black eyed susans at Frog Run Farm

Mary Mathias and David Houriet, age 4, at Frog Run Farm

David Houriet, age 5, at Frog Run Farm.

Susan Houriet in a field at Frog Run Farm, with a daisy in her teeth

Martha Lasley building the woodshed

Wood tools on the floor of the woodshop. Norman Trout did most of the woodworking

Interior of the barn at Frog Run Farm, looking through the cracks in the walls