Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke

by Susan Danly and Marianne Doezema

Book Overview

Mt. Holyoke, which overlooks the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, has been a tourist destination and an inspiration for artists and writers for almost two centuries. The view from its summit attracted the Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole among many others, including literary visitors such as Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In 1836, Cole created the most famous painting associated with the mountain, based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801441196
• ISBN13: 9780801441196
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher