What is Earl Farm / Howard Goodwin Family Farm

Covering 400 acres of land with a varied topography and strictly zoned for agriculture, the Earl Farm includes a solid three-story house with a dry basement, a barn in good repair, and a seven-acre pond that seems to be the Goodwin family's salvation from summer heat until a neighbor girl drowns there. Alice Goodwin's favorite place is the untended apple grove near the pond. Howard Goodwin buys the property for half-price when Maynard Earl dies, the last of four generations on the land.