History Becomes Her: Anie Stanley On Unearthing American Heritage Through a Home

Our childhoods inimitably define us. And it is only when we are adults that we glean just how much. It came as little surprise, therefore, to hear that Anie Stanley grew up in the Catskills with romantic aspirations of a beautiful homestead. I stayed in her house a couple of seasons back with a girlfriend in the fabled Smokey Belles, named after the many women who have visited (Southern Belles) and the property’s 7 campfires.