Just minutes north of Kennett Square and Longwood Gardens, up a country lane past grazing cows, is the brick Colonial 1836 house of this 120-acre working farm. Anne Hicks arrived here as a bride more than 45 years ago. She raised five children in this house, and in 1984 she opened it as a bed-and-breakfast. She’s an accomplished cook, craftswoman, and collector of dolls and family antiques. You’ll find big, sunny farmhouse bedrooms, including one with a fireplace, Amish quilts, family photographs, a Chippendale bed with a crocheted can-opy, and a carved sleigh bed with a head-board 7 feet tall. There are also three rooms over the garage, but these lack the character ofthose in the main house. Breakfast is served on the long ma-hogany table in the diningroom, orin the solarium, a glassed-in porch overlooking the flower gardens. |