 The result is rich in atmosphere and crowded with collections of things—primitive paintings, redware, painted furniture, stacked Shaker boxes, weather vanes and decoys—that have since come to define the country look.Bertram Little served for many years as president of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now called Historic New England.The Littles bequeathed the property, complete with its contents and associated records, to that organization in 1984.