Picking Your Own Apples - Where to Go in Harvard

It's Fall, the real estate market is slowing for the season, the air is crisper, and the sun just glimmers. This time each year I enjoy my seasonal apple obsession. Drawn to the local orchards and farm stands, I keep an eye out for the best varieties of apples to use for baking apple pies. I am still perfecting techniques and working towards that day when the cook book is left on the shelf and I am able to create my baking from memory!

Everyone should know that there are a number of quality local orchards to visit and make for a wonderfully idyllic afternoon. Orchards offering "pick your own" experiences, in the town of Harvard are compiled by the Harvard Conservation Trust in a handy flyer at left. Please call before you set out, to ensure the orchard you are interested in visiting is open. Harvard Conservation Trust Flyer.

The Town of Harvard and its Schools - The Bromfield School History

Ask around town and every once in a while you might meet a Harvard resident that attended the original Bromfield School. This landmark building, under renovation today, was made possible by a generous private donation from Margaret Bromfield Blanchard in 1876.

This high school opened in September of 1878 with a total of 40 students. Today a total of 706 students in grades 6-12 attend Bromfield, around 99 of these students will graduate this spring.

I attended Bromfield and although most of my classes were not in the "Old Bromfield" building, I have fond memories of strolling to this historic space for art classes. In retrospect, I always felt some excitement walking with classmates to that building, on our way to that days lesson on drawing, sculpture, painting, or pottery.

Today, I am happy to see the building undergo an extensive renovation because it surely needed it. My hope is that when this building becomes the new town library it will continue to be a great space for young minds to explore their creativity in a building that is a spectacular example of how important education is and always has been to our community. The photos are amazing, take a look!

Town Center Traffic Experiment

In an effort to alleviate traffic "jams" at the center of our small town, the Public Safety Department has swapped the red blinking traffic light with the yellow blinking traffic light. Seems like an early Halloween prank to me.

All I can say is be prepared for the odd sight of sand bags and....slow down--- many people are used to the opposite traffic pattern.

(I have personally resorted to crossing my fingers and gritting my teeth as I motor through this newly configured intersection.) Change is good, right?.

The State of Real Estate in 2006

It seems that there are a lot of real estate experts, me included ;-). For this reason I have decided to publish my own Blog devoting its content to my personal thoughts concerning real estate and (from time to time) other amusing topics that I find relevant in my small hometown of Harvard, MA.

Interestingly enough, the real estate market in Harvard is actually one of only ten communities across the country on the Wall Street Journal's "Move-Up Home Index". Of all ten communities I would say that hands down, Harvard is the smallest.

So what is the big fuss? This is hopefully what my Blog is all about!

I guess, let's just try and keep it sort of a secret.

Wall Street Journal Move-Up Home Index