Page 63 - The Hunt - Winter 2024

In 2022, a group of Connecticut women attended Cheshire’s Vixen Hunt. Upon returning home, they found the perfect candidate to buy a particularly large parcel of the Brandywine Valley land Cheshire had been working to protect for quite some time.
Duff has frequented her share of these chases. “It’s fun to ride with women only, meeting ladies who share your passion from other hunts,” she says.
Several years ago, afternoon tea consisted of folding tables in a field, where guests ate cookies, cheese and crackers off paper plates,
washing it all down with wine or soda.
That didn’t sit well with an accomplished host like Duff. When Bartholomew offered Plumstead for the event in 2023, Duff seized the opportunity to incorporate the property’s grand bank barn. “I am, in fact, competitive about hosting,” she quips. “With the
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