A bucket bursts with freshly cut sunflowers. Fading barnwood faces a ramshackle cabinet. Stacks of orange and green squashes crowd the fireplace mantel, like a 19th-century still life. In a meticulously framed photo, a hand holds a single white dandelion, taken the moment before a puff of breath or a breeze scatters the seeds. Occupying a Victorian storefront on a serene Park Slope byway, Applewood summons all the corny tropes of agrarian ruralism. "This is so Kinderhook," the nonprofit fundraiser quips. "No, more like Chatham," her attorney and life partner replies, invoking names of picture-book... More >>>