A Nook of One's Own

On 16 acres of Nova Scotia farmland, finding a corner that's just yours.

I had never been to Nova Scotia, but I had dreamed about it. Maybe it was loving Annie Proulx’s “The Shipping News” and becoming captivated by Newfoundland, or at least other areas of a wilder, northern part of the world. Or maybe it’s just that my friend Colu, a cook and a writer, and her partner Chad bought an 1850s farmhouse near the ocean on 16 acre…