My father built this little house for me in 1958, when I was only 5 years old. It was a garden shed re-purposed as a playhouse and I used it as a playhouse throughout my childhood. The environment is New England brush and evergreen forest grown back to a suburban wilderness after clear-cutting in 1955. Yes, this suburban forest environment was a tree-less mini-prairie fifty years before. Not much has changed. The original main house has been re-built as a two-story house and this "Little House" has been rebuilt with color and trim to match the main house.
Brown ink and colored pencils on illustrated sketchbook page, 8" x 5 1/2", December 31, 1997.
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