My family of four, with twin ten year old girls, and my in-law's family of four, with a sixteen year old girl and a four year old boy, enjoyed a marvelous and memorable week at the Apple Cottage on Wolfe's Spring Farm in Sheffield. The cottage is a beautiful specimen of a style we might call Rural New England Sublime. Spacious and well-appointed, it brims with thoughtful architectural details that carry an understated but unmistakable rustic theme anchored by the use of vintage distressed wood harvested from a local barn. Photographs cannot quite capture the wonder of the house, the feel of it coming from the thematic wholeness of the structure and the sublime way it blends into the surrounding farm landscape and expresses the values and personalities of its owners. June and Jim are lovely people and exemplary hosts. It's clear they love the place they live and the work they do and they take pleasure in sharing their property and lifestyle with their guests. The children in our families loved helping out with the morning farm chores (an optional but highly recommended experience), culminating in the delivery of fresh eggs to the breakfast table. June and Jim are unobtrusive but always available to answer any question and meet any need. They prepare the cottage with special touches of the kind one associates with an upscale boutique hotel. They encourage their visitors to take full avail of the wide range of Berkshire experiences and they help them to do it -- in some cases, as for us with a canoe trip, extending themselves in truly extraordinary ways. I grew up in nearby Lenox and pride myself on knowing the ins and outs of the area (not just the world-famous cultural institutions but the local dives and secret swimming holes), but I have nothing in this regard on June and Jim and must defer to their superior knowledge of the southern part of the county. It is splendid territory, Sheffield and the surrounding villages, sitting within close range of legendarily tourist-friendly towns like Great Barrington, Stockbridge, and Lenox, but more authentic in their continued connection to the agricultural roots of the area and populated by no-nonsense but warm and hospitable townsfolk. We thank June and Jim and look forward to returning for years to come.