Living and Working — With History, Nature, Ghosts, and Water Snakes — in a 300-Year-Old Wissahickon Valley Park House

Carol Adams and Craig Johnson are tenants and stewards of Glen Fern, a historic house in Northwest Philadelphia's Wissahickon Valley Park. They've also built a habitat for Northern Water Snakes between the house and the nearby Wissahickon Creek. Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

By Kevin Riordan From The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia–As resident stewards of the nearly 300-year-old house known as Glen Fern, Craig Johnson and Carol Adams are immersed in the many splendors of Wissahickon Valley Park.