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Actually it’s a stable. Seriously.
Up through this past Sunday, the only thing I associated Marshall Fields with was a somewhat frumpy, cut-rate Sundance-styled catalogue that every so often made it past our post office discard bin. Now, after visiting Caumsett, his former country estate that is now a state park, I can add gentleman farmer, huntsman, and anglophile to the reference catalogue.
Field had Caumsett built as a retreat where he could indulge in wife-free activities, but it’s no modest country cabin. Rather, the property was constructed to be entirely self sufficient, replete with its own electricity and water supply, gardens, wildstock, and dairy. Fields was also an avid sports enthusiast, and Caumsett offers stables, jogging, cross-country skiing, and cycling paths, and a beach from which one can swim and scuba dive.
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