Someone moved behind me with a rustle and slid into the water. A high voice called softly up the scale, and I caught a glint in the corner of my eye … a suggestion of fur and a splash.
Read articleSpring brings writers to Edith Wharton’s gardens
At the beginning of spring, writers come to the Mount, sitting in Edith Wharton’s living room on a rare sunny afternoon, and reflect on the 10th annual residency.
Read articleNew forest paths open at Nightwood
A web spreads overhead in the branches like sails. The strands glimmer as though they’re touched by moonlight. I’m walking up the path in Edith Wharton’s forest, in this winter’s Nightwood at the Mount. And this pathway is new. ...
Read articleNightwood grows deeper into the trees
Nightwood has transfigured the Mount again with light and sound and sculpture, and the paths have shifted since last winter.
Read articleSculpture surfaces in Edith Wharton’s garden
The sea serpent in the garden is unmistakeable — rippling vintage translucent blue. I wonder what Edith Wharton would have said to a creature as long and sleek as a sailing canoe.
Read articleFirelight and music transform NightWood at the Mount
The flame streams sideways in the wind. The bowl of the torch is gleaming copper — it’s an oil lamp, essentially the same as the lamps that burned in Constantinople 2000 years ago, or in the temple of the Macabees ...
Read articleSculpture takes natural forms at The Mount
He’s a massive figure standing here at the top of the hill … Jamie Burnes’ life-sized bison made from Corten steel and locust wood looks out into the summer sculpture show at the Mount.
Read articleNightWood turns the Mount into a new world
This winter, the Mount will transform Edith Wharton's gardens and grounds with NightWood, a landscape of mystery and fantasy, doors into other worlds, journey and night.
Read articleNightWood transforms the Mount — #berkshireweekend
Torches flicker in a long curve into the darkness — a quarter-mile of oil lamps lighting the road. The Mount is a new place tonight. Firelight lines the path between the pine trees, and a bass beat begins to rise ...
Read articleWriters share a residency with Edith Wharton in the pandemic
Writers Sue Miller, Patricia Park and Dayna Tortorici shared a residency in Edith Wharton’s home this spring, as Covid-19 transformed the world around them.
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