Nestled in a quiet nook of the Eastern Exposition Fairgrounds beneath stately elms, Storrowton is the embodiment of an early New England village with authentic furnished buildings surrounding a picturesque Green. Among these, is the awesome Gilbert Homestead, a farmhouse built in West Brookfield in 1794 by two brothers, Levi and Peletiah Gilbert. The Gilbert family is directly descended from Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the English navigator, half-brother to Sir Walter Raleigh. 

Third in my sampler series, the Gilbert Homestead is depicted in its true simplicity and character on 29-count Dove Grey Scottish Glenshee linen stitched in the traditional holiday motif.