…on the top floor of the main building (designed by one of the primary founders of the Academy, Charles Follen McKim of McKim Mead and White) of the American Academy in Rome is where I have been fortunately placed for the year, with a big terrace to the side, and panoramic view of Rome from our vantage point above Trastevere and on top of the Gianicolo – and I’m just getting settled – while thinking about starting a Roman homestead up here.