Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors

by Theodore F. Wolfe

IN BERKSHIRE WITH HAWTHORNE

I.	The Graylock and Hoosac Region
II.	Lenox and Middle Berkshire

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I

THE GRAYLOCK AND HOOSAC REGION

North Adams and about—Hawthorne's Acquaintances and Excursions—Actors and Incidents of Ethan Brand—Kiln of Bertram the Lime-Burner—Natural Bridge—Graylock—Thoreau—Hoosac Mountain—Deerfield Arch—Williamstown—Bryant.

THE Hawthorne pilgrimage has drawn us to many shrines: the sunny scenes of "The Marble Faun," the peaceful landscapes of "Our Old Home," the now busy city of "The Scarlet Letter," the elm-shaded Salem of "Dr. Grimshaw" and "The House of the Seven Gables," the Manse of the "Mosses," the Wayside of "Septimius Felton" and "The Dolliver Romance,"—these and many another resort of the subtile romancer, in the Old World and the New, have held our lingering feet.

Amid the splendors of a New England September we follow him into the "headlong Berkshire" of "Ethan Brand" and "Tanglewood Tales."