Expert: The “coach barns are more significant than the house.”

Two bugs on a flower!  Captured while I was on a walk at Duke Farms.

Updated Oct. 18, 9:46 AM

After following this summer’s accounts of  the attempts by Michael Catania, Executive Director of the Duke Farms Foundation to destroy the mansion sitting on the 2,700-acre site built by James Buchanan Duke, and inherited by his daughter, Doris, I was appalled to learn yesterday that he finally prevailed.

I was even further dismayed to see how easily the Hillsborough Historic Commission (HHC) caved in, voting 6-l in favor of the foundation to raze the 65,000 square foot mansion which has been the estate’s anchor and its principal jewel, designated as an historical site.