Each painting might contain a riveting story and George
Washington might have received water out of the house���s
well. But a large Japanese stone lantern, one of a pair,
on the side lawn, is as poignant and melancholy as any.
It was given by the parents of two Japanese boys to a
New England family who looked after them during WWII
when they were students at Harvard. That stewardship
kept them out of internment camps. Subsequently, one
of the stone lanterns went to the Rockefeller Garden
in Maine, this one to Russell and Hope Ford, who then
gave it to Robert and Elizabeth.
HYLAND
