Nestled in the foothills of the White Mountains and on the northern shores of pristine Newfound Lake is the Town of Hebron, New Hampshire. Home to 459 year-round residents, it’s the quintessential New England village with historic homes and town buildings surrounding a gorgeous common. Just yards from the common and nearly entirely surrounded by Audubon wildlife sanctuary is the circa 1820 Meadow Wind farm, once a working farm and now a small bed and breakfast.

The house has been recently winterized and restored by your hosts, Karen Stetson and Pete Carey, using historic colors and retaining vintage wall coverings, plaster and beadboard walls, and wood beamed and tin ceilings. Period furniture provides the flavor of yesteryear and comfort of a simpler time. Coffee’s always brewing in the country kitchen with its ancient and huge soapstone sink beneath windows overlooking the long meadow to the Cockermouth River and wooded mountains beyond.

Share breakfast with other guests in the formal dining room, or spend some private time on one of the farm’s three porches. The spacious veranda overlooks gardens, fields, and woods which host an array of wildlife, both furry and four-legged and avian. In the stillness of dawn or dusk, you’ll spy the occasional moose or deer; after dark, you may shiver at the cry of a fisher cat or wake to the song of the loons.