Carnegie Lake used to freeze over when I was a kid. We skated all day and built bonfires on the banks to warm ourselves afterwards while we sipped whiskey from a flask passed around by the governor’s son. That was when the Hughes family lived in “Morven,” a tiny estate compared to “Drumthwacket,” which now serves as the governor’s mansion. I’m not su…
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