But I am unobservant and clueless! Dan Curtis had me pegged! I didn't notice the difference in the windows! MB, I am the perfect Dark Shadows viewer, and you are not.
LOL, Lydia.
What's odd to me is that in one of these episodes, Laura said she and David would go to the cliff on Widow's Hill frequently and talk. How long did she live at Collinwood? Long enough for David to grow enough to be able to go for walks and have conversations about Madagascar?
She did live at Collinsport for awhile, since it's at least implied that her supposed "crack-up" (whatever it was) happened there, because her deterioration made things hard on the family. Yet it also happened after Roger and Laura had lived in Augusta for several years. I suppose lots of visits to Collinwood would explain it all.
I suppose that after Laura was institutionalized, Roger hung out on his own in Augusta, blowing his inheritance on all the expensive fun to be had there (before reaching zero in the bank account and turning up at Collinwood again). On second thought, maybe he went to Boston or New York... leaving David in Augusta with (bad) babysitters?