

Shale beach, where the long dock sliced into the lake. Broad awning-shaded steps led to the lawn that ended at a The spire on the tower room jutted above the treetops on the fifty-five acres of farmland, pasture, and woods, and large high windows stared out over the water. The elegant two-story Victorian house dominated a curve of land on the shoreline of Canandaigua Lake in western


His earliest memories were of the estate where his family summered, and of a sailboat tied to the dock at the end of a stretch of manicured lawn.
