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While my question is not about the mysterious future archive board, I do have a question about the above quote.  I usually count on "show unread posts" to see what I've missed, but recently, I can be gone for a week or so, and see that there are new posts from the "most recents" listed on the home page, but when I click "show unread posts," it says "No messages."  If I only have time for a quick visit, but don't check out ALL the new posts, are the newish ones (which I still haven't read) lost in BoardLand?

Judy

I know there's no official "Collinwood" layout, but because I'm working on my second DS    novel (  ok, Pansity, stop laughing.  My DS "NeverEnding Story."  Is that better?) I'm watching all the early episodes that I missed originally and looking for tidbits of information that might be used here or there:  little bits and pieces of family info...like the Amontillado that Jeremiah liked and the fact that the family owned a vineyard in Spain up until WWII, the old curmudgeon & confirmed bachelor Caleb Sayers Collins who owned the house that Vicki loved and didn't want anybody but a Collins to own it, and how Elizabeth offered the West Wing for Vicki and Burke to live in because it was a "completely independent unit."

I'm also interested in various "destinations" inside the house and one that I've tried to pin down is the LIBRARY.  I've decided that it's really the Collinwood Bookmobile.   I saw one episode where Elizabeth said she was going to get something from the library and she went out of the foyer to the doorway under the stairs.  Another time I saw Julia announce that she had left something in the library and was going to go get it and she headed up the stairs.  Today I just saw Dr. Woodward come into Collinwood [spoiler]all atwitter because he had figured out that Barn was a vampire.[/spoiler] (Yeah, ok, no big surprise--just practicing my "spoilerposting."  He announced to Vicki that he wanted to go to the library and use some of the family books.  Vicki told him where he could finde some special ones "in the library" that Julia had been working on.  They both mentioned several times about books in "the library" and then he headed off towards the study (which is apparently past the drawing room, and past the camera...)  Will somebody PARK the $&!#%  LIBRARY already?   LOL!!!!

Then again in that scene, I wonder if "library" was mistakenly said for "study"  because that's where he was and that's what Vicki said when she told Julia he was in there.  Ok, so the "LIBRARY" must span two floors then.  And Elizabeth was going to the downstairs part.  And Julia was headed to the upstairs part.  Maybe THAT's the ticket.  ("No ticket!"  Indiana Jones)  And then we'd have a dumbwaiter from one level to the other.  Maybe that's how Gabriel went from one floor to the next.  Of course [spoiler]WE KNOW he can walk, but nobody else did at Collinwood for YEARS and YEARS (except us, but we're special)[/spoiler]

We know there's the Tower Room and we saw a 'breakfast nook' in one of the early episodes.  Do we know how we got there?  LOL!

For my own sanity (or lack thereof ) I've worked on the architecture for "my" Collinwood, so I know where things are in my story.  In browsing through Bobubas's wonderful DS site, I saw a picture inside the 'real' Collinwood that showed the righthand corner room with the huge arched windows.  After finding out that this was originally the "Solarium," I looked for pictures of solariums that might have fit into the Collins family history and found a great one in Hawaii,  http://www.huinoeau.com/history.php  The room is in the style of the 1920s, and so in my story, I could not resist "restoring" the room to what Elizabeth remembererd from her childhood.

Any thoughts on what other rooms might have been around?  Or hiding out somewhere?    (Billiards?  Conservatory?  LIBRARY?  lol!) And how to get there?  LOL!   And any other cool bits of info?

Thanks!

P.S.  And thanks for the Mayonnaise Curses, Mrs. Johnson!!!!!!