| Author | : Howard E. Covington |
| File Size | : 41,8 Mb |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 10 March 2006 |
| ISBN | : UOM:39015064695623 |
| Pages | : 360 pages |
Lady on the Hill by Howard E. Covington Book PDF Summary
In the late 1950s, attorneys, financial managers, and tax accountants were united in advising Cecil and his brother, George, to sell off the estate's 12,000 acres in order to create a suburban subdivision. Cecil quietly ignored this advice and came up with a better idea: over the next four decades, he would turn this down-at-the-heels mansion that was a drain on the family business into the most successful, privately preserved historic site in the United States, perhaps even the world.
