Excerpted from an article published by Lynne Klaft in The Telegram!
Celtic lore says: If you build a fairy house, they will come.
Rustic and fanciful fairy houses, maypole dancing, May baskets and fairy cakes celebrated springtime in New England at the Doyle Conservation Center.
“It’s an Irish tradition in my family, and I’ve been making them since I was a little girl; playing in nature. I wanted to raise my daughter the same way; she loved the fairy stuff when she was young,” said Ms. Martin, a local high school teacher.
Over the past few weeks Ms. Martin and her daughter, Gabrielle, made dozens of fairy houses constructed of tree bark, twigs, broken flower pots, wicker baskets, moss, pine cones and acorns, then set them out in shrubs, along stone walls, in tree stumps, and on and around the trails and the grounds of the conservation center’s parklands.
The building of fairy houses is a longtime tradition in New England, especially in Vermont and Maine, according to Ms. Martin.
If you attract a fairy to your fairy house, know that a reciprocal invitation to visit the land of fairies is a high honor, but remember that if you eat or drink anything there, you may never leave.
Read the whole article at The Telegram!
