Those hustling to find lodging in the Berkshires today may not know they are repeating a two-hundred-fifty-year-old ritual. In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the Berkshires played host to some of the most fascinating characters in American literature, politics, business, and the arts. They came with the warm breezes and left when they felt the first cold snap in the autumnal air. The Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages is a photographic record of Berkshire dwelling places from the rough simplicity of stagecoach inns to the glittering luxury of Gilded Age cottages.
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Carole Owens has written, lectured, and taught about the Berkshires for more than twenty years. Her other works include The Berkshire Cottages and Bellefontaine.
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Instructive, enlightening, intoxicating - just like the Berkshires themselves,
By Bueno (Pittsfield, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages (MA) (Images of America) (Paperback)
Too often, people dismiss the Berkshires as the "Berzerkshires" - a place inhabited by the kinds of folksy degenerates who populated the artworks of the great Norman Rockwell, arguably the Michelangelo of his time. As Ms. Owens points out in her magnum opus, nothing could be further from the truth. The Berkshires are not merely the petri dish of the grotesque - they are also the locus of many random cottages, scattered hither & thither across the landscape, which it behooves any self-respecting human to visit, nay to study in depth. Yes, you will visit the Berkshires for the inbreeding & the unsolved homicides, but you will stay for the COTTAGES. Huzzah!
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Fascinating social and architectural History of the Berkshires,
By Avid Reader MBH "mbh" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages (MA) (Images of America) (Paperback)
Carole Owens has written an interesting and informative book for those readers who want to learn more about this particular era and location in US economic, social, and architectural history. The Berkshires have had a disproportionate influence on many aspects of US culture, literature, politics, education and commerce, by virtue of who came here from the beginning. They were a place of incubation for much social reform, from abolition to womens' suffrage and education reform from the elementary level through medical schools. Learning who lived here and how provides a valuable insight as well as showing the esthetic of these remarkable homes.
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THE STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER HOUSE. A propitious combination of wealth and location facilitated the movement of building materials and workmen to this site along the river in 1765. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Courtesy of the Lee Library, New York, Gilded Age, Sand Springs, Courtesy of the Red Lion Inn, Belvoir Terrace, Century Association, Courtesy of Ed Darrin, Courtesy of Jane Foster, Courtesy of the Lenox Library, Edith Wharton, Evelyn Sloane, Graham Parsons, Miss Sedgwick, United States, American Lake District, Courtesy of Lion Miles, Ernest Bowditch, Fanny Kemble, Hannah Lydig, John Sloane, Zenas Crane, Berkshire Coffee House, Berkshire County, Catharine Sedgwick New!
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THE STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER HOUSE. A propitious combination of wealth and location facilitated the movement of building materials and workmen to this site along the river in 1765. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Courtesy of the Lee Library, New York, Gilded Age, Sand Springs, Courtesy of the Red Lion Inn, Belvoir Terrace, Century Association, Courtesy of Ed Darrin, Courtesy of Jane Foster, Courtesy of the Lenox Library, Edith Wharton, Evelyn Sloane, Graham Parsons, Miss Sedgwick, United States, American Lake District, Courtesy of Lion Miles, Ernest Bowditch, Fanny Kemble, Hannah Lydig, John Sloane, Zenas Crane, Berkshire Coffee House, Berkshire County, Catharine Sedgwick New!
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne: New Critical Essays (Critical Studies Series) by Robert A. Lee on page 43, and page 57
- Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards on page 11, and page 57
- Lewis Carroll (Biography & Memoirs) by Derek Hudson in Front Matter
- All This, and Heaven Too (Rediscovered Classics) by Rachel Field on page 35
- The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page 43
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