Often, I secretly put my books aside and spent a stolen hour or two trekking through the fields or exploring abandoned farmhouses for rusted treasure.
It is now disclosed that the rebel planes bombed and set fire to isolated farmhouses for a distance of five miles around Guernica.
A tip came in Wednesday evening that Mr. Naden, who was said to burgle farmhouses for non-perishable foods, beer and weapons, had returned to a house he had broken into before.
The southern half of the county, a woodsy stretch of rural backwardness when, soon after the Second World War, his family, at his mother's instigation, had bought back the family farm, was now a haven for Philadelphians, who were snapping up the old stone farmhouses for weekend retreats.
Upstate New York and the Hudson River valley have recently become a mecca for women artists and art-loving couples from 35 to 65, as there are endless "Woodstocky" men, who ride motorcycles and who can convert barns and Victorian farmhouses for lady artists to settle down with.
