Standing under the gilded octagonal dome of Chiswick House with Amanda Foreman, a year-old blonde in a biker jacket and jeans, I watch her trying, for my sake, to summon the ghost of someone who once lived here. She is a historian with a sense of theatre. Sticking her hands into her pockets, she paces the ground slowly, and talks me in. But Chiswick was her favourite. Here she comes, through this door! I can see part of her face. It is a lovely face, with those slightly bulging Spencer eyes, and marmalade-gold hair loosely piled up on her head.
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They wanted to knock it down and build a lumber yard on the site. Fortunately, they didn't get the house at that time. Eighteen years ago, she and husband Gary "Bort" Bortscheller bought the renovated, historically registered home and have worked to improve what had become an architectural showplace for southeast South Dakota.
