The farm once consisted of over 40 acres, but the Southbury Land Trust has bought some of it to include in their parcel right across and surrounding Stillmeadow Farm. The Land Trust of Southbury has been working with the Taber family to help them keep the homestead. Amazingly, it’s reported she has kept it just as if Gladys had stepped out to run some errands. While the home is not open to the public, it’s still owned by Gladys’ granddaughter. I was thrilled to learn it was just over an hour’s ride from This Old House. The following are photos I’ve found online – hopefully it’s OK to share them here with you. The title of that book is Another Path – I just purchased it on Amazon (all books are now out of print but if you’re lucky, you can find them online or in a bookstore that carries out of print books). In one of her later books she shares with her readers the grieving experience and what she found helpful to cope with such a terrible loss. Sadly, Jill passed on in her 60’s of cancer and Gladys found herself engulfed in grief. With her talent for writing, Gladys brings her readers along with her on their journey, these homesteading stories and recipes now treasured for generations. Gladys and Eleanor delighted in gardening, cooking, tending the old farmhouse, raising their children in the country and their beloved dogs as well. What I found out by doing some research is that Gladys eventually divorced and Eleanor’s (Jill’s) husband died of cancer at some point. It’s unclear what the role of the husbands were at the farm, they are not mentioned frequently in the books. For many years after, Gladys wrote of life at Stillmeadow. The women initially commuted on weekends, but within two years they decided to move permanently to the farmhouse. The young family lived in a small, dark apartment in NYC, but she and her childhood friend and NYC neighbor, Eleanor (Jill in the books) yearned for a simpler, cleaner life in the country to raise their children and beloved dogs, away from the smog and noise of the big city.Īfter two years of searching NJ and CT for an affordable farm, the two families purchased the vintage 1690 Southbury, CT farmhouse for $30K and soon found there was much work to be done as the home was dilapidated beyond what they had assumed upon purchase. Gladys married Frank Taber and had one daughter, Constance. from Lawrence College and taught creative writing at Columbia for years. She was a columnist for Ladies Home Journal and Family Circle, had a bachelors degree from Wellesly, an M.A.
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If you click on the link, scroll down her post a little to find info and a tour of Stillmeadow.Ī little info about Gladys – Born in 1899, died at the age of 81 at her Cape Cod home, she was the author of 59 books including the Stillmeadow series currently on my nightstand. You can find Susan Branch’s wonderful blog and post about Gladys HERE. I discovered Gladys through another favorite author of mine – also a respite read if you are looking for upbeat home and heart warming stories, art, recipes and musings on life. She died on March 11, 1980.I’m so disgusted by our current political atmosphere that I have been seeking respite from all that blustery ego and dagger waggering crap… and I have found it in the wonderful books of Stillmeadow by a renown (but unknown to me till now) author… Gladys Taber. Gladys Taber lived in Stillmeadow, a 1690 farmhouse off Jeremy Swamp Road in Southbury, starting in 1933 (summers only) and 1935 (full-time).
Her column "Diary of Domesticity" began in the Ladies' Home Journal in November 1937 "Butternut Wisdom" ran in the Family Circle from 1959 to 1967. The house was jointly owned by the Tabers and their friends Eleanor and Max Mayer. She married Frank Taber, and they had a daughter, Constance, which interrupted her academic career then for more than 20 years, she lived in Stillmeadow, her vintage 1690 Southbury, Connecticut, farmhouse, having commuted to New York City part of the time to teach creative writing at Columbia University from 1921 to 1926. In 1920, she received a bachelor's degree from Wellesley, and an M.A. She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois and Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts. Gladys Bagg Taber was born in Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899, and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a mining engineer. Gladys Bagg Taber (1899–1980), author of 59 books, including the Stillmeadow books, and columnist for Ladies' Home Journal and Family Circle. Wellesley College BA, Lawrence College MA
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