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This Old House Radio Hour. Every week, we answer your home improvement and DIY questions,

and also take a deep dive into the art, science, and soul of home building. We recently had the

pleasure of featuring the slowdowns Maggie Smith on our show, where she took us inside her

100-year-old home

that carried her family through every chapter of their lives. Here's Maggie's segment from

that episode. If you'd like to hear more, you can follow This Old House Radio Hour in your podcast app.

It's This Old House Radio Hour. I'm Jen Largis.

Coming up, cheap old houses are back with a budget-friendly Georgia starter and an 1850s

upstate New York mansion in need of a hero. But first we go to Bexley, Ohio.

Award-winning poet and host of The Slowdown, Maggie Smith, invites us into our century-old home

where she believes a home should reflect the life you build inside it.

Hi, I'm Maggie Smith. I'm an author and the host of The Slowdown, and this is my old house.

I live in Bexley, Ohio. It's the first city in the U.S. to be designated an arboretum.

There are so many trees.

It's really what charmed me most about moving in here.

My house is a hundred years old this year.

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