On weekends, these beautifully kept 1,200 acres are packed with locals lawn bowling, visiting the 17 museums, and walking the trails that crisscross the flower-strewn park.
Guests can spend an afternoon in an Adirondack chair on the lawn or visit the private harbor beach that has a life-size wooden chess set.
"Hey, you, get off my lawn!" And yesterday, Barack Obama visited the Crow nation, where he was formally adopted into the tribe and given his own Indian name.
If an old man sets out on a long trip atop a reconditioned lawn mower to visit the brother he has not seen in 20 years, it is probably an arthouse film.
He creates unsettling and bewildering filmic landscapes, twisting genres until they're almost unrecognizable road movies that feature references to the Wizard of Oz, the supernatural, or a 73-year-old man traveling 240 miles across America on a lawn tractor to visit his dying brother.
He then visited the Rosemary Lawns Hotel and decided to take a room there.
The Peterses are the ideal next-door neighbors, soft-spoken people so courteous that they assiduously avoided stepping on the lawns of the homes they visited.
It seems that every little redbrick country church in every backwater hamlet that we visited had a sign on its front lawn announcing: "Catch the Spirit!
The first, John Gibbons, said that the Squires had visited his house in Abbotsbury "with handkerchiefs, lawns, muslins, and checks, to sell about town" from 1 9 January.
When I visited him there not long ago, the front lawn had been excavated to extend the house's basement.
