Taber’s books for companionship, friendship, comfort, encouragement and to read extremely well written literature. I cannot begin to think how many times I’ve turned to Mrs. “He didn’t think of it.” “Don’t you just love that Yankee pragmatism?”, I ask gleefully! “Well, one could not expect a man to drain the pipes before shooting his wife,” said Jill. What they learned, post haste, was “the fatal truth about every sink, toilet, and tub in the house. Gladys and Jill, the name in the book she gave her BFF Eleanor, began renovating the house. our basic equipment… consisted of a staggering fortitude and no common sense. Even if we had, I think we would have gone ahead just as recklessly…. In fact there were many things we did not know. We also did not know how hard it is to manage a Yule log with a dull axe. It had kind of rusted away, we were told afterward. Taber wrote in one of her books, “The furnace was broken but we didn’t know it. Granted, it was in need of a bit of work but the price was lower than market value because the former owner had shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself. After a while of searching, they found Stillmeadow.
Taber and a friend, along with all their children, moved from their tiny, for the most part, walk-up NYC apartments, leaving their husbands to work in the city and visit on the weekends.
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