It’s time for the younger generation to take on the Big House while they have the energy, imagination and finances to do it, says Carla Carlisle.
My ancestral home — white columns, a veranda that stretched the length of the front, a row of rocking chairs — was knocked down. The new owners built a bigger and better house. They didn’t put the new house in the exact same spot, but ‘sited’ it in the middle of the pecan orchard. By taking out four rows of pecan…
