After being postponed at least twice last year due to rain and mud, the Landowners' Tea for Mr. Stewart's Cheshire Foxhounds was finally held the morning of Saturday, Nov. 16, at Lydia Bartholomew's Plumstead Farm on Street Road. It was a beautiful sunny morning and, as always, there were lots of neighbors, ample food and drink, and conversations about the perennial interests of horses and real estate transactions.
Just before the horses and hounds set off for the day's hunting, Master of Fox Hounds Sanna Neilson gave a short, gracious speech, thanking the guests for allowing the members of the hunt to ride across their land.
For fun, I wore a vintage hat of my mother's decorated with (I think) pheasant feathers. Kim Brosnan-Myers told me it reminded her of the time a few years ago when she was cleaning out a closet at London Grove Friends Meetinghouse and found a cache of old hats and gloves. She said the story goes that during World War II, the ladies of the meeting decided they would not buy new hats or gloves and instead contributed the money they saved to the American Friends Service Committee.
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