New Hampshire's Cornish Colony

Download or read book New Hampshire's Cornish Colony written by Fern K. Meyers and published by Karger Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic photograph collection of Cornish, New Hampshire, on the banks of the Connecticut River, once a warm-weather haven for artists, writers and poets, sculptors, landscape designers, and other escaping the cities. In the late 19th century, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the pioneer. Others came to homestead in Cornish, and in Plainsfield, and in Windsor, Vermont, across the river where the train station provided easy access. "Members" of Cornish Colony included the American novelist Winston Churchill, artist Maxfield Parrish, and Louise Cox.