Carter recalls hearing the freight trains pass through twice a day-he liked to count the cars. Jimmy Carter's childhood home in Plains, Ga., is a Sears Roebuck bungalow, with an outhouse, a windmill and railroad tracks across the way. Woodrow Wilson's home in Washington, D.C., is a trove of personal touches: the grand piano his daughter played, an old movie projector-Wilson was a fan of silent moves-and a set of canes he used in his last years. Vernon while describing the slave quarters, whose inhabitants did not "have the luxury of taking a break under a tree, or relaxing briefly on the grass." In the letters and renderings, Van Doren explores "what makes human." He takes note of the lovely grounds at Mt. Each multiple-page letter is a series of delicate watercolors, with words written over, under, around or sometimes directly on the art. Van Doren introduces each house with a somewhat formal depiction, but the appeal comes from his correspondence with McCullough. sees them anew, and consequently, so do we." As his friend David McCullough writes in the foreword, "with his eye for architecture and the human element, not to say his distinctive sense of humor, Adam. Godine, $40), artist Adam Van Doren presents portraits of 15 homes he found intriguing. In The House Tells the Story: Homes of the American Presidents (David R. Vernon to the grand summer retreats of the Kennedys and the Bushes to the modest homes of Truman and Carter. The homes of American presidents range from the iconic Monticello and Mt.
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