KAREN E. NELSON

Growing up with Minnesota winters, dollhouses were always an important part of indoor life for my best friend, Cindy, and myself (pictured above as teenagers in a sandcastle we built on Cape Cod). Cindy owned a magnificent cupboard style dollhouse built by her Grandfather for her. It was fully furnished and occupied by a couple of dolls that had been her mother's. We played with her dollhouse for hours on end.