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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One of my all-time favorites. Happy World Book Day! And #happyreading wherever in the world you are.
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I’ve been wanting to read more poetry, and Emily Dickinson’s beautiful verse seems just the thing for spring with flowers blooming everywhere. The green-thumbed wordsmith was an avid gardener, and more than a third of her poems feature floral references. During her lifetime, Dickinson penned some 1,800 poems, most of them written in secret and recorded in small, handmade booklets that were discovered after her death.
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Plus, I’ve never been to the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, and would like to visit this summer. Along with touring two Dickinson family homes, a warm-weather pastime is strolling the grounds, accompanied by an audio tour that integrates Dickinson’s poetry with the landscape.
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“We are all more complicated than the roles we are assigned in stories.”
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Just finished EDUCATED by Tara Westover. Wow. This is a harrowing, infuriating, inspiring true story about growing up in an extreme survivalist family in the mountains of Idaho—and through sheer determination, leaving at age seventeen for college, the author’s first time attending school and the beginning of her transformation through education. I’m glad I get to talk about this one with my book club in a couple of weeks. There is SO MUCH to discuss and process about this story.
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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.