Preserving a way of life
During his lifetime, Tom Carr Watson witnessed the decline of the family farm and the virtual disappearance of a way of life that for hundreds of years had been synonymous with New England. The open farmland that had dominated the landscape was being developed at a spectacular rate. Tom Carr Watson became determined to perpetuate the tradition of the family farm and in 1979 bequeathed his family’s 265-acre farm to Historic New England, then the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, with the intent of preserving not only the house and land but the way of life it represented.
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