"Neagley combines a personal memoir with the history of a well-known tourist site. The author presents the reader with two fascinating stories…a personal account of growing up in a Russian immigrant family and coping with her parents' alcoholism. She then recounts how…she developed a professional career in interior design that brought her into contact with the Webb family of Vermont's Shelburne Farms...This admixture of personal history and chronicle of the Shelburne Farms estate is engaging to read. . .a fascinating and worthwhile account of what happens when a family estate must reinvent itself."—Kirkus Reviews