The 20-room, 22,000-square-foot mansion was built 100 years ago for the politically and academically prominent Ames family. The Gilded Age home and its 1,700-acre estate were acquired by the state in 1969.
The 300-member Friends of Borderland have been preparing the centennial for a year, said committee cochairman Ken Wood, of Easton.
“All this is tying the families and the communities together,’’ Wood said. The committee’s 40 volunteers come from East… (View original article)