Today is three years since Ivan Gardner died. He left us three weeks after Maud and seven weeks before his 90th birthday. I think of Ivan so often as I enjoy Mas de Panis. After all, it was Ivan who brought Maud to this area in 1986 to visit his old friend Peggy Nercessian whom [...]
My mother, Maud Beamish, and her partner, Ivan Gardner, discovered Mas de Panis in the French summer of 1986 when they came to visit Ivan’s friend, Peggy Nercessian, who lived 15 km from here, near Najac. They instantly fell in love with the place and Maud’s family took steps to acquire it. Ivan was a Cambridge [...]
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