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Located on ten acres of woods and meadows at the intersection of two active state streets, the Dudley Farm initially looks like a great many other surviving New England farms from the 19th hundred years. But, with a second look, it becomes clear there's a difference. Relaxing on hook hill above the road, using its picket fence and stone walls, the farm telephone calls the passerby. The regal house and weathered barn have a bearing of permanence and strength as they cling to the land like the Yankee farmers who built them. Saving the Farm; A Quest through Time, Place, and Redemption is the storyplot of the way the Dudley Farm became a museum to preserve and signify a vanishing former. By itself, that story may well not be of any great importance, but at the same time when local farms are all but vanished, the struggle to save the farm for future generations took on the crusade like quality for the tiny group that had taken on the task and the hundreds who supported their effort. Confronted with unrelenting residential and commercial development, a lament repeated in neighborhoods across New England was been told in the tiny community of North Guilford - is this what we wish? Can we preserve the history and heritage that made us who we have been or will it be lost permanently in the name of progress?
