Reading recommendation: Cottage for Sale, Must be Moved

by Kate Whouley

This is a sweet memoir about a small project with a small budget and the rewards of savoring a small opportunity. Kate Whouley invites us into her life among her family, friends, planners, town administrators, movers, contractors and inner musings to share her tale of her simple wish to marry her modest 1950’s Cape to a minimal cottage of the same vintage on her quiet Cape Cod property.

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DVD recommendation: My Father, the Genius

Directed and Produced by Lucia Small

By contrast with Nathaniel Kahn’s film about his long-deceased father, architectural-great Louis I. Kahn, filmmaker Lucia Small is able to tell the story of her architect father, Glen Howard Small, while he is still alive, able, and all too willing to speak for himself. In fact he has asked Lucia to tell the world about his work. His specific request was that she write his biography, presumably once he’s passed on.

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DVD recommendation: My Architect, a Son's Journey

Directed and Produced by Nathaniel Kahn

This documentary featuring and directed by Nathaniel Kahn explores Nathaniel’s journey to learn more about his father, world-renown architect Louis I. Kahn, whom he barely knew. We learn from Nathaniel’s narration that when he was eleven, his father was found dead of a heart attack at the age of seventy-three in the men’s room of New York’s Pennsylvania Station, bankrupt and alone.

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