(LENOX, Mass.) – Two new initiatives at The Mount will enhance visitors’ experience, making it less of a house and more of a home. The first is a partnership with the Preservation Society of Newport County that includes a loan of period furniture and paintings from its collection. The other is a new admission policy…
(LENOX, Mass.) – On Saturday, January 24, 2015, The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox, joins with Lenox businesses and organizations in hosting a day of literary appreciation on Wharton’s 153rd birthday. The festivities will include dramatic readings, raffles, and refreshments at three of Lenox’s leading literary hubs: The Mount, the Lenox Library, and The…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Two new adaptations of Edith Wharton short stories, “The Long Run” and “The Rembrandt,” will receive a Thanksgiving Week run at The Mount from Wednesday, November 26, to Sunday, November 30, 2014. In “The Long Run” (1916), Ames, a gentleman engineer, returns to his social circle in New York after twelve years’…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds will read from her work at The Mount on Friday, September 12, at 7 pm. The reading — the Amy Clampitt Memorial Reading — will be free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow. Born in San Francisco, Sharon Olds studied at…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, widely believed to be based on a real incident that took place in Lenox, will be the subject of a free marathon reading at The Mount – where Wharton lived when she wrote the book – on Saturday, February 23, 2013, starting at 1 pm and lasting as…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes paid tribute to the influence of Edith Wharton on his creative process, attributing the success of the critically acclaimed TV series to Wharton’s “tolerance and … humor,” at a gala event at the Harvard Club in Boston, at which Fellowes was feted by The Mount, on Saturday,…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Wharton Salon joins The Mount’s year-long celebration of Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday by putting Edith Wharton herself onstage this year in The Inner House, running from Wednesday, August 15 through Sunday, August 26, 2012, at The Mount. Adapted by Dennis Krausnick from Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, A Backward Glance, actress Tod Randolph…
(LENOX, Mass.) – On Wednesday, June 13, 2012, The Mount will host debut novelist Francesca Segal for a reading and discussion of her debut novel, The Innocents, a modern-day recasting of Edith Wharton’s 1921 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Age of Innocence. The reading, discussion and book-signing will take place at 5pm. The event is…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Amidst a festival celebrating works by filmmakers from around the world – and around the corner right here at home — the 7th annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) will host a two-day Filmmakers Summit beginning Thursday, May 31, 2012, featuring a diverse program of panel discussions, lectures, special events and breakout sessions led…
(LENOX, Mass.) – In its programming for the coming year – the 150th anniversary of author Edith Wharton’s birth – The Mount will pay tribute to Wharton by highlighting her life, work, and achievements under the umbrella theme of Edith Wharton: 21st Century Muse. The Mount’s official opening day is this Saturday, May 5. Highlights…
