An icon awaits at Chesterwood
Posted September 8, 2008 | Published by The Berkshire Eagle, Massachusetts
One can go to Chesterwood, one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Historic Sites, for many reasons: To see how a famous American sculptor lived in his relatively simple country house, to see the hydrangeas he planted along the walk to the woods and to admire the restored walled garden. But Chesterwood has something else, and any Berkshire residents who have not yet been to this pastoral spot should take advantage of the fall season and get there. To go once is to go again and again. The reason is that sculptor Daniel Chester French, in this very studio, created the Seated Lincoln that stands in the Lincoln Memorial above the Mall in Washington, D.C. It may be impossible to get blood from a stone, but plenty of people have gotten tears from this piece of stone.
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