All that explains why she’s who we turn to when we want to share how one of our timber frame home projects came to be.
“I love the stories Brooks clients tell about their new homes,” she said. “The decision-making, conversations, and revelations along the way – and seeing the results of that collaborative, creative process in these beautiful structures.”
An avid traveler, Donna also enjoys horse riding – and when she can combine the two, as in several trips she’s taken riding in the Sangre de Cristos of Colorado, all the better! Closer to home, she’s joined musical groups ranging from an opera company to folk groups, and for a time took on percussion and
vocals in a local band named Roots Cellar.
She’s had roles in community theater productions that have run the gamut from farces to David Mamet shorts to classics like On Golden Pond. Her most unusual role was as a middle-aged “Dorothy” in a musical adaptation of the Wizard of Oz, in which the death of Auntie Em led to bereft Dorothy’s nervous breakdown. (The songs were all adapted show tunes.)
“Almost everyone involved said that show would be too difficult to ever put on again, and I agree, but it was a wild and challenging experience,” she said.
Donna serves on the board of the The Surry Players, a theater group that put on its first play over 45 years ago. She also spent eight years as a director on the board of her HOA in Stoddard, NH. There, she oversaw maintenance of almost 10 miles of New England’s famous unpaved roads during what she swears were the absolute muddiest, snowiest, driest, AND rainiest years, ever.