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library, billiard room, and even a bowling alley, the house and
its contents illuminate the extravagant lifestyles of privileged
Berkshires society in that opulent era.
A far simpler way of life is revealed at the Susan B. Anthony
Birthplace Museum in Adams, home of the pioneering feminist
and abolitionist who is credited with the 19th Amendment giving
women the right to vote, even though it was passed years after her
death. Susan’s father ran a small rural store out of the Anthony
family home, recreated to its 1817 appearance. Museum displays
highlight family and regional influences on her life and work.
To explore two centuries of local industry and try your hand
at making paper, pay a visit to the free Crane Museum of
Papermaking in Dalton, housed in an 1844 stone mill. The
low-key museum fascinates kids as much as adults with its
hands-on exhibits and facts about the history of America’s oldest
paper company, Crane’s fine cotton stationery, and money.
Feel Good
If your idea of a vacation is to just kick back and be pampered, the
Berkshires is the place to do it. Treat yourself to a day at the hilltop
Cranwell Resort in Lenox, home to one of the largest spas in the
northeast. Choose from a la carte treatments or six spa-day pack-
age options such as The Revitalizer, which combines a Swedish
massage, luxurious facial, pedicure, and a cafe lunch with full use
of all the spa’s facilities. And at Body & Soul Day Spa in Great
Barrington, you can indulge with a warm herbal neck pillow fol-
lowed by a massage, or make a day of it with The Great Escape
package: massage, facial, body polish, manicure, pedicure, and
spa lunch.
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Each year, maple trees across New England are tapped
through their bark into buckets to yield maple sap, which
is boiled down into thick, sweet maple syrup. It takes
about 40 gallons of sap to produce a gallon of syrup.
RESORT DIRECTORY:
CLIMATE: Daytime average
temperatures are 31°F in
December, 27°F in January,
and 30°F in February.
DON’T MISS: The Berkshire
Museum in Pittsfield.
Everyone loves the moving
toys, early works of mobile
artist Alexander Calder, who
employed wheels, levers, and
cranks to make whimsical
animals waddle and bounce
as they are pulled.
INTERVAL TRAVEL:
RENTAL CAR:
Recommended
VISITOR INFORMATION:
The Berkshire Visitors Bureau
413.743.4500
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