The Lost Days of Agatha Christie

Biographies & Memoirs

Owens, Carole

May, Nadia

Arts & Literature

Blackstone Pub

The Berkshires are a popular tourist attraction and vacation getaway, serving the same function in relation to Connecticut and Massachusetts that the Catskills do in New York and the Poconos for Pennsylvania. With numerous trails, including part of the Appalachian Trail, large tracts of wilderness, parks like Kent Falls, Berkshire Botanical Garden and Hebert Arboretum the Berkshires are very popular with nature lovers. The Berkshire region is noted as a center for the visual and performing arts. Carole Owens is a resident of Stockbridge, MA. Her home is on the grounds of a 19th century Berkshire cottage. This book offers the Berkshire Hills traveler the unique opportunity of standing in two centuries at once. A tour of the cottages is one to be undertaken while they stand and can be experienced in their 20th century incarnations as inns, restaurants and historic sites. This book will guide the reader to a vanishing era.

The Berkshire Cottages: A Vanishing Era

Arts & Photography

Cottage Press

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Cottage Pr Inc

Bellefontaine: A historical narrative

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Canyon Ranch Enterprises

In eighteenth-century America, information about a woman’s life and accomplishments was very difficult to discover, but some woman were avid letter writers or devoted journal keepers, and thankfully some of those letters and journals were saved. These woman include Mary Gray Bidwell, a quiet country woman who had a front row seat on the war and the formation of the new nation. Elizabeth Edwards Burr whose husband founded Princeton University and her son was the second Vice President of the United States (and tried for treason). Lavinia Deane Fisk, widowed during the Revolutionary War, her second marriage triggered a fire storm that led to a revolutionary war in the Congregational Church. The Widow Bingham who fought to live as a man becoming the first woman to have a tavern license, build a business substantial enough to send her son to college and serve on formerly all-male civic committees. Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight, a Tory: the story of the Royalists during the War is not often told. The war years changed the lives of each of these women and perhaps their lives changed our new country.

Remarkable Women of New England: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers: The War Years 1754 to 1787

Community & Culture

Globe Pequot

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. Come inside the Berkshire coach inns where "one might be subjected to disagreeable exposures," as Timothy Dwight noted in 1823. Come inside the Berkshire cottages where the rich and powerful were entertained according to the precepts of fashionable society. Use this volume as a guide to the many structures that have been preserved.

Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages

History

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Carole Owens, author of the sumptuous Berkshire Cottages, presents a new work on the glories of Pittsfield, the New England village that became the "Gem City" of the Gilded Age.The aristocratic lifestyles of John D. Rockefeller, William Stanley and fellow captains of industry demanded equally glamorous houses: all are here, along with stories of a star-studded society era that included Edwin Hake Lincoln, Herman Melville and Wild Bill Hickok. Author Carole Owens brings Pittsfield's lavish estates out from the shadow of its neighbors Lenox and Stockbridge, and chronicles the city during one of the most decadent periods in history.

Pittsfield:: Gem City in the Gilded Age

The History Press

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