Over a river and through the woods is an airy farmhouse, finely crafted by Portland’s Wright-Ryan Homes for a busy brood.

On a large, wooded plot in Greater Portland, Daniel and Christine Emerson’s sons can dash back and forth between their home and their cousins’, 300 yards away. The property’s thick enclosure of maples, oaks, and pines is their playground and a lengthy driveway doubles as a bike path. “We had nostalgia for the way we grew up, playing outside and relying on our imaginations for fun,” says Christine of the couple’s move from the Boston suburbs to Maine, where Daniel, a software engineer, was raised.

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