Stephanie Copeland, president and CEO of The Mount, Edith Wharton’s historic home in Lenox, Massachusetts, has announced that there is a new blog chronicling the efforts to save the estate, which is facing financial difficulties. At helpsavethemount.blogspot.com, bibliophiles are invited to share their stories about visiting The Mount. Visit www.edithwharton.org for more information about fundraising efforts and to make a pledge.
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” —Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
In 1867, a young Mark Twain spied an advertisement for a cruise to Europe and the Holy Land, the first organized tourism in American history. He convinced a California newspaper to fund his passage on the five-and-a-half-month excursion in exchange for weekly columns. Twain later turned the trip reporting into his first full-length book, The Innocents Abroad, which one reviewer deemed “instructive, humorous [and] racy.” An interesting exhibit at the New York Historical Society delves into the story behind Twain’s lively travelogue, published 150 years ago and his bestselling book during his lifetime. The exhibit runs through February 2, 2020.
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Giving thanks today and every day for great storytelling and superb novels like this one.
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Rules of Civility follows Katey Kontent, a smart, witty, ambitious young woman, through the working world and into the New York social circle in the late 1930s, beginning with a chance encounter at a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year’s Eve. The story is compellingly told, with lovely writing and a vivid New York City backdrop. Not only are there echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton, tales infused with glamour and grief, literary lovers will appreciate the abundance of bookish references throughout. “I’ve come to realize,” muses Katey, “that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”
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Nighttime browsing before meeting up with my book group. Or, holiday shopping for me. 🎁 #strandbooks #bryantpark #wintervillage #nyc #booksofig #bookstagram #bookstores
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October 25, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Karenne Saylor
I visited the Mount in May 2009 and recently wrote about the visit on my blog. I visited two days in a row, one of them during the Friday night “ghost” tour. In my blog entry, I didn’t mention the tour, although I did have an experience while I was standing outside of the old sewing room, near the elevator. I caught it on a digital recorder and others (including Molly) heard the sound. It was directly below her office.
I will be adding a literary blog entry about Edith Wharton very soon. I have to gather my thoughts first, in order to write a scholarly essay.
October 26, 2009 at 1:24 pm
noveldestinations
What an eerie experience! I really enjoyed the post on your blog about your visit to the Mount, especially all of the photos of the interior.