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Chesterwood,
7 TOP 10 NEW ENGLAND BOOKS
Stockbridge, MA
MAP B3 • 4 Williamsville Rd
• 413 298 3579 • Open late May–
mid-Oct: 10am–5pm daily • Adm
• www.chesterwood.org
The home and studio of Daniel
Chester French (1850–1931) vividly
recalls the sculptor best known
for his seated Abraham Lincoln in
Washington, D.C.’s Lincoln Memorial.
Mark Twain House,
8 Acclaimed novelist John Irving
Hartford, CT
MAP C4 • 351 Farmington Ave 1 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• 860 247 0998 • Open 9:30am– Thoreau’s philosophical musings in
5:30pm daily (Feb: closed Tue) • Adm the Massachusetts woods remain a
• www.marktwainhouse.org key text in American thought.
Tiffany interiors feature in the 2 Country of the Pointed Firs by
home of the great storyteller. Sarah Orne Jewett
The adjoining museum revolves Revolutionary psychological novel
around Twain (1835–1910) and his about women in rural coastal Maine,
contemporaries. first published 1896.
3 Outermost House by Henry
Beston
Account of a year living on Cape
Cod’s Great Beach.
4 New Hampshire by Robert Frost
This Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry
collection contains much of Frost’s
most quoted verse.
5 Hotel New Hampshire by
John Irving
Comic turns abound in this literary
Romance of Autumn at Farnsworth novel of despair and redemption at
an old resort hotel.
Farnsworth Art
9 6 Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Museum, Rockland, ME
Lehane’s noir fiction reveals seamy
MAP Q3 • 16 Museum St • 207 596 undercurrents of life on the edge
6457 • Open Jun–Oct: 10am–5pm daily; in South Boston.
Nov–Dec & Apr–May: 10am–5pm Tue– 7 Little Women by Louisa May
Sun; Jan–Mar: 10am–4pm Wed–Sun • Alcott
Adm • www.farnsworth museum.org The four March girls struggle to
The art dynasty of N. C. (1882–1945), overcome character flaws.
Andrew (1917–2009), and James 8 Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Wyeth (b.1946) is celebrated here. Children’s classic fiction finds
philosophy in the barnyard.
Gropius House, Lincoln,
0 9 Witches of Eastwick by
MA
John Updike
MAP F2 • 68 Baker Bridge Rd • 781 Women of a fictional Rhode Island
259 8098 • Open 11am–4pm Wed–Sun town dabble in the occult in this
(mid-Oct–May: Sat–Sun only) • Adm parable of love and power.
• www.historicnewengland.org 10 Mortal Friends by James Carroll
Explore the family residence of the The tale of Colman Brady, part Irish
highly influential architect Walter revolutionary, part Boston mobster.
Gropius (1883–1969).

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