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Jobs In Windsor Berkshire
New England offers many semi-rural vacation spots only a short drive from New York City and Boston, and the Berkshire Mountains, in Massachusetts, are home to some of the best. Spectacular countryside views have long made Western Massachusetts an ideal home for writers seeking an alternative to crowded and distracting city lives.
Visit the homes of Melville, Wharton, and Bryant
Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick and hiked with Nathaniel Hawthorne near his Pittsfield home, and Edith Wharton and chose Lenox as the site of her elaborate country estate. Poet William Cullen Bryant added on to his birth home in Cummington, turning it from a basic New England farmhouse into an elegant Victorian cottage. These writer’s homes have been preserved and are opened to the public for guided tours.