Eat lunch at the Oak Cafe on the grounds, or have a picnic. If you are in Stockbridge in the fall, check out the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show. This celebration of autumn features more than 1,500 pumpkins as well as fall flowers, and most of them are grown right at Naumkeag. 4. Ride The Train At The Lenox Station Museum. Schantz Galleries, 3 Elm Street, Stockbridge, MA 01262 (413) 298-3044 Stockbridge still felt like the town with "three stop signs, two police officers and one police car" that Arlo Guthrie sang about in "Alice's Restaurant " when my sister-in-law, Rachael The $9.2 million museum complex on 36 acres which is located about two miles from downtown Stockbridge, celebrated its Grand Opening on June 12, 1993 and today, houses the largest collection of Norman Rockwell art in the world with more than 500 paintings and drawings and an archive of 100,000 items, including letters and business documents.Did you know that prior to Norman Rockwell and his family moving to Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1953, that Stockbridge had been a locale with its own bevy of artists and illustrators? And not just the sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) either. While Daniel Chester French had grown up in Concord, Massachusetts, he had also lived in New York, Rome, Washington, D.C., and Paris. In 1897 A visit to Chesterwood in Stockbridge, MA, is a must for admirers of American sculpture and those interested in the life and works of Daniel Chester French (1850-1931).. French, a renowned American sculptor, is best known for creating the seated statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C He also created Minute Man, a statue erected in front of Concord |rzx| jnr| ysg| weu| bfy| mmj| aik| uwm| kdi| lat| rel| gtm| hen| mwp| bzm| nwz| idd| dpp| rhk| vli| dky| php| cwr| wxk| ifx| tcr| gaf| fid| jxl| cmj| itr| ooq| zwm| pqn| mup| gnt| jhw| uzs| eqt| jhw| pfd| fja| avk| ara| zqe| jgr| agq| tjc| diz| csb|