MOVERS AND SHAKERS
The legacy of Samuel Clemens lives on at the Mark Twain House & Museum Mark Twain House & Museum
As Ken Burns points out in his film Mark Twain, the famed author was a “tireless wanderer” who called very few places home; the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of them. In the words of Samuel Clemens (Twain’s real name), “Our house had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with... it was of us.” Few houses anywhere reflect the personality of their owners so well, especially the rear of the house, which clearly resembles a Mississippi steamboat – echoing Sam Clemens’ days as a riverboat pilot. In fact, there’s no evidence that the architect ever intended the resemblance; it’s said to have been a coincidence of design combined with the eye of the beholder... an idea which is harder to accept than the image of the cigar-smoking, ex-riverboat pilot on the wheelhouse-balcony of his study, steering his house down the Mississippi.
A New England wildlife presentation introduces you to rehabilitation efforts
property in 1885 from a man who persuaded him that the area was full of men who looked like Abraham Lincoln (Saint-Gaudens needed a model for his Standing Lincoln at the time). The sculptor’s estate eventually became the centre of an artists’ colony whose residents included Maxfield Parrish, and whose influence and reach extended across the nation, drawing numerous writers, editors, actors, and celebrities to its rural retreat. Visit Saint-Gaudens’ studio and gardens, now a National Historic Site, displaying many of his works including sculptures, reliefs and coin designs. Following lunch, step back in time for a taste of old-time New England life at The Vermont Country Store in Rockingham, an emporium harkening back to the general stores of bygone days, stocked to the rafters with kitchen gadgets, penny candy, clothing and accessories, and “household problem solvers.” Venture further to the small town of Walpole, New Hampshire, where Ken Burns founded Florentine Films, and get an inside look at his private studio where, as colleague Dayton Duncan writes, Ken Burns “set out to transform the telling of American history through documentary films.” Return to the Hawk Resort where the remainder of the day is spent as you please – this evening, dine à la carte. Meals BLD
Discover Shaker ingenuity at New Hampshire’s Shaker Village & Museum Canterbury Shaker Village
Danish Modern design of the 20th century took much of its inspiration from Shaker designs of the 19th century. Ken Burns recalls coming across “a remarkable round stone barn on the side of the road whose shape and exquisite workmanship left me wondering, ‘Who are the people who would make such a thing?’” His quest for an answer led to his film, The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God. The simplicity of Shaker furniture also suited mass production, so that Shaker craftsmen had to compete with knockoffs of their own products. Shaker ingenuity also gave the world flat brooms, clothespins, the circular saw, the Shaker peg and the wheel-driven washing machine. Learn about the spiritual people whose sometimes invisible influence has permeated modern life at the Shaker Village & Museum in Canterbury, New Hampshire.
6. BILLINGS FARM TO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS This morning at the hotel, Steve Taylor, a farmer, scholar, journalist and former New Hampshire Commissioner of Agriculture, shares insights on balancing agriculture and conservation in the region, a prelude to your visit to historic Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont. In 1871, railroad executive Frederick Billings retired to start a dairy farm, inspired by a revolutionary book called Man and Nature by George Perkins Marsh. Embracing its ideas of sustainable land use and forest conservation, within a few short years Billings had created a model farm whose cows and produce gained national attention. Meet the Jersey cows at Billings Farm and Museum, and get a firsthand look at its farming and forestry methods. Lunch on your own in the town of Woodstock, then enjoy breathtaking views of New Hampshire’s White
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