“The minute this river freezes solid and has no sense of melting, the geese go to the Fore River.” –Debra Winch 100 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine House of the Month from top: staff photos (2); courtesy berkshire hathaway “H asty Thompson was a real stickler,” Debra Winch, the seller in 2018, says. “He traced his ancestry all the way back to David Pat- rick. When they widened the bridge, Hasty wouldn’t let them move the house to a dif- ferent location,” so they had to relocate it to a new position on the property. Now that Hasty’s gone, “his son, Tris Thompson, and daughter-in-law, Lois Thompson, live next door to me. “In 1997, Tris’s sister Joanna owned my house. I think they rented it a few times af- ter it moved. That’s when I bought it. It was a different color outside.” For Wexler, it was luck on wings to find