Barn to beauty
Susan North and Joel Woodard shared a common vision when they decided it was time to leave their lovely Victorian home in Bernardsville and search for greener pastures. In 2004, and quite by chance after months of searching, their dream was finally realized. While viewing prospective properties at their realtor’s office, they spied a photo of a majestic but crumbling 18th-century barn. Artfully set amid a 10-acre field of daisies in Hunterdon County’s bucolic Tewksbury Township, they set out to find the barn and the rest of their story is design history. Read the full story and see the striking interior in the current issue.

Riding high
It’s a horse lover’s baccalaureate dream. Students enrolled in Centenary College’s Equine Studies program often bypass stuffy classroom and lecture environments for instruction and hands-on experience in airy, hay-filled barns and state-of-the-art riding rings. That’s because Centenary is one of a select group of colleges across the country offering associate and bachelor of science degrees in equine studies and its horse-friendly, rider-focused educational environment is unique.

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