Katherine Crum, daughter of Howard and Virginia Crum, writes articles on the history of the Chartreuse & co. property, family, and her experiences growing up in a family business. In my family, we’ve always joked that we – the Crums (Chartreuse founder Virginia’s immediate family) – were the ‘& ...
Read More(Re)Defining Home – The Long Room
The first room you enter from the front of our house is The Long Room. But we never use it that way. In my grandmother’s day, the front door was never opened. You see, in 1952, ten years after she and her young family moved to Clifton on the Monocacy, ...
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