Mr. Cowsill, Mrs. Cowsill and all concerned live in a 22-room mansion on top of one of the few Newport, Rhode Island hills. As you drive up the winding drive, the first glimpse of the house takes your breath away. It seems as if you are dreaming. Ivy is growing all over the walls of the house, windows are broken, screens are hanging. It all has an air of the "unreal."
The place could only exist in America. The grass has grown to a height of 3 feet. Curly, the family dog and very much a member of the family, hunts rabbits and other wild things in the amazing forest. The house is three stories high with a "Captains Walk," which, as the story goes: when the captain had the house built way back when, he put the walk on the roof so his wife could watch for his ship to come into the harbor. Today, Mrs. Cowsill uses the walk to escape from her eight riotous Indians. "This is my favorite spot in the world. I come up here to think and relax - pure heaven."
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