An East-Coaster by birth, I knew at an early age that big-city life was not for me. Even so, after a brief stint in Tucson, Arizona, I found my way back east via an opportunity with Penn State University. For the next 25 years I owned a successful child daycare facility in the state college arena; during this time my husband and I invested in the purchase and restoration of vernacular Victorian-era properties, bringing them back to their historic...