"Lenox Kusticators on the uaine Coast, Ventfat Hall. 7/16/2019 Nini golder and Ron Epp JIMA INCHINEA 10 e layer OHLAN memority Tein ispos AUPI en Mr YOUES G761 life canvania au AMC head mommata OLIVE MENDAL the 0 hunsor Please join us at Ventfort Hall for the July 2019 Tea & Talks on Tuesdays at 4:00 pm: "Posting It, or Networking, Victorian Style," "Downton Abbey Style: The Influences of Fashion, 1912 - 1925," "Lenox Rusticators on the Maine Coast," "After Emily: The Women Who Introduced Emily Dickinson," and "John White Alexander: An American Gilded Age Artist," sponsored by board member Lucille Landa and William Landa. Tues., July 2, 4:00 pm. Tues., July 9, Tues., Tues., July 23, 4:00. Tues., July 30, 4:00. Catherine J. Golden, 4:00 pm. July Mabel Loomis Todd Considered on a par professor of English "Downton Abbey 4:00 was the woman with John Singer Style: The pm. who brought to Sargent and William and the Tisch Chair Influences on Ventfort light the work of a Merritt Chase, the in Arts and Letters at Skidmore College, will Fashion, 1912 Hall reclusive but highly once acclaimed talented poet. Julie portrait painter John reveal the story of a 1925" is the historian Cornella Brooke Gilder and little-known revolution subject behind author and historian Dr. Ronald H. Epp Dobrow, journalist White Alexander with "Posting It, or what historic textile and costume expert will join to present "Lenox Rusticators on and professor at Tufts University, will is especially Networking, Victorian Style," based on Susan J. Jerome calls "the notable the Maine Coast," the story of the impact discuss "After Emily: The Women Who recognized for his figure paintings of evolution of women's and men's clothing" of the Berkshires on the development Introduced Emily Dickinson," the subject women striking evocative poses and her book. It started in early 19th century Britain when the recipient, not the sender, - the dramatically social, technological of the Acadia National Park on Mount of the presenter's new book. The elaborately arranged in flowing gowns. paid to receive a delivered letter. Rates and political developments of the period's Desert Island led by George Bucknam shadowy and scandal-laced Amherst, Art historian and Alexander author and Massachusetts surroundings include expert Mary Anne Goley will introduce were determined by the number of pages broader world. She will take a look at the Dorr, the legendary conservationist and and the route a letter traveled. By 1840, work of some of the influential fashion landscape designer. His vision of Acadia Mabel's lover, Emily's brother, Austin, us to the artist's international career and the Penny Post was established - an designers and others of the time, and offered "one great element of wildness" who was 30 years older, and Mabel's his exceptional talent for movement and adhesive penny stamp for a 1/2 ounce what was fashionable, or not, as a clue to - "contact with the ocean and the sight daughter Millicent Todd Bingham - a gesture. Goley fortunately had early letter paid for by the sender. In London why people wore what they did. Jerome from mountainous heights of its great complex tale indeed. Dobrow uses access to historical materials she found by 1860, there were 12 postal deliveries is Collections Manager at the University plain of waters." He was also an advisor hidden diaries, long-lost letters and rarely in the untouched Alexander estate. from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. Stamps and of Rhode Island Historic Textile and to gardening friends Beatrix Farrand in seen documents to weave her story - She was also the founding Director of luckily, the two women kept every scrap the Fine Arts Program of the Federal prepayment quickly became the norm Costume Collection, and is a consultant Maine and Edith Wharton at her Lenox worldwide.event to museums and historical societies. estate. of paper. Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. Front: The General Post Office: One Front: Downton Abbey Family, Front: George Buckman Dorr Front: Emily Dickinson & Minute to Six by George Hicks Friends & Servants at Acadia National Park Austin Dickinson Front: Althea by John White Alexander Tea & Talks: $28 advance; $32 day of event, including Victorian tea. Mansion open daily for tours Reservations are recommended as seating is limited. Call (413) 637-3206 for reservations. 104 Walker Street, Lenox, MA 01240 Visit gildedage.org for more information. Non Profit Org US Postage Mansion is available for private rentals. PAID T-1 N-00000476 AUTO**AI FOR AADC 060 Permit 121 Pittsfield MA Ronald Feb 7 Peachtree Ter Farmington CT 06032-2064 Nini SLIDE LIST Lenox Rusticators on the Maine Coast ellphones Aflen July 16, 2019 VH need for T10 exits, and !. Title slide - George Dorr in Acadia thank Intro...CBG introduces Ron Epp and refers to research on CBG George Dorr and how we have helped each other over the years, figuring out the links between Lenox and Mt. Desert Island as summer resorts. A. open with brief comparison of Bar Harbor and Maine resorts contrast to Lenox - sea landscape, boating, no farming, short season date Lenox began as a resort earlier. George B. Dorr (1853-1944) on Dorr MTN towering figure in history of Acadia National Park Lenox childhood 1a Map with relative locations of Lenox, Boston and Bar Harbor 2. Blantyre gates - driveway into old Dorr place 3. Highlawn built C. 1850 Nini 4. George's uncle Samuel Gray Ward and ABWard Lenox pioneers 5. Highwood (1845) Oakwood (1877) two Ward houses in Lenox B Old Farm Guest Book 1880s and 1890s 6.Mary Dorr C. 1893 7. Old Farm Ron 7a Bar Harbor bird's eye map with Old Farm site marked 8. Old Farm guest book - some names of old Lenox families starting with relatives 9a photo of ABW, Sam Ward, grandson Ward Thoron who else of the old timers in Lenox did we find? a former owner of the Ventfort property 9 Clemence Haggerty Crafts... admired by Henry James 10 Rackmanns lived across Kemble Street from Ventfort - site of Spring Lawn 11. old neighbor John Sargent (first house on Plunkett St) 11a Cornelia Rockwell Bowditch and family. Daughter of Judge Julius Rockwell 12 Emily Sloane shy, earnest daughter of the of Elm Court Sloane family 12a 19 year old Emily's inscription to Mary Dorr 13 Emily Tuckerman of Stockbridge another Henry James friend and Katharine Sands Godkin C. Those were visitors Now some regulars in Lenox who also had houses in Bar Harbor 14John Innes Kane and Annie Schermerhorn Kane - big Acadia supporters, quiet benefactors I Lenox, lived unostentatiously in one of the Elm Cottages next to Lenox Library (now the reading park) 15 Kane house in Bar Harbor 16 Kane Path Acadia 17 Annie Kane and G. B. Dorr walking in the park. 18. Memorial plaque to John Kane 1915 with Anne as widow with her sister 18a Dorr at Eagle Lake with path chairmen 19 Mrs. Burton Harrison - Lenox house (now Brook Farm B&B) 20 selection of Mrs. Harrison's books Lenox and Bar Harbor Mini 21 Charles Dana Gibson illustrations "Sweet Bells Out of Tune" 1896...in 1902 DeWitt Mallary published in The Critic an article on Lenox Literary life. 22. Edith Wharton & niece Beatrix Farrand - 23 Reef Point - Beatrix Farrand and her mother Mary Ran Cadwalader Jones Nini - 24. Belvoir Terrace and Morris K. Jesup 24a Jesup memorial plaque 25 Jesup Library in Bar Harbor Rm 26. interior of Jesup Library 27. Jesup Path Acadia Vini 28. Herbert Parsons and Stonover Farm 28a Where were the Morgans? GBDorr and Frances Tracy Ran Morgan at Bar Harbor. George Morgan family of Ventfort Hall gravitated to North Haven D. Other coastal resorts - Isleboro.. 29. Dr. Francis Kinnicutt's house in Lenox Deepdene Nini 30. Mrs. Kinnicutt sailing !!! The Kinnicutt house on Isleboro Campobello, New Brunswick, only NPS site outside the US 31. Mrs. Kuhn (Grace Cary Kuhn) as an invalid in Lenox Nine 32 Mrs. Kuhn's Lenox house built in 1871, Campobello 1897 33. Eleanor Roosevelt leaving the Campobello house on her last visit 1962 34 RE and CBG books - conclusion - what we learned. importance Ran of authers 23 March 2019 Ventfort Hall Notes for Nini from Ron: Part 1 1. The first born son of Samuel Gray Ward was delivered in Lenox in October 1844. Thomas Wren Ward II (1844-1940) visited MDI, stayed at Oldfarm in 1886 with wife Sophia and his mother, Anna Hazard Barker Ward. Following the death of Dorr's parents and grandparents, Tom had the most enduring relationship with G.B. Dorr than any other relative. There are images of Tom, Sophia, Sam, and Anna in "The Ward-Perkins Papers," by Donald Fitch (p.47). For a century, the Lenox cottage industry begun at Highwood has a direct line to Oldfarm (1844-1944). Moreover, as I explained in my October 2018 talk, the neighboring Highlawn estate of the Dorr family draws GBD to Lenox repeatedly during the first half century of his life until he sells the property he inherited. 2. Elizabeth Howard Ward (1873-1954), author, patron of the arts and wife of Charles Bruen Perkins (1841-1941), was the eldest child of TWW II; by marriage she allegedly became related to T. Wharton. Her marriage in 1896 to CBP brought the Ward and Perkins families together. CBP was an Oldfarm guest in 1888 & 1892 prior to his marriage; in September 1907 his wife Elizabeth visited. Another family member, Edward Newton Perkins (1883-1983) visited with CBP, the son of Edward Clifford and Kate Cheesman Perkins. Edward is buried in Tyringham Cemetery beside his wife, Kate Riggs Perkins, "a summer resident" as reported in the Berkshire Eagle, 31 December 1948 (see "Find a Grave." online). Does Nini know more about Edward and Kate? Elizabeth and Charles had a home in Jamaica Plain, where she is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. 3. The philosopher William James is an Oldfarm guest at the same time as the Elizabeth Ward Perkins visit in 1907 though he documented visits in 1886 and 1897 for extended stays-- both with and without his family. Devote some detail to the Dorr-James relationship which had developed prior to James's documented visit with Sam and Anna Ward in July 1882 at their second Berkshire Cottage, Oakwood. The language James used to describe Oakwood where he "felt 'six years' younger and felt 'the same fresh boy as then,'" (see Paul Fisher, House of Wit, 2008, p. 440) is strikingly similar to language James uses about Oldfarm and hiking Mount Desert. 4. The signature of twenty-year-old Beatrix Jones appears in the Oldfarm guestbook, September 1892, one year after her mother, Mary Cadwalader Jones, left a poem beside her signature. Nini should discuss the ties with Edith Wharton's Lenox whereas I can speak to the allied conservation interests of Beatrix and GBD, not ignoring Farrand's impact of MDI garden development and her landscaping with J.D. Rockefeller Jr. 9 Grandfather Ward usually rented for the extended family a house for the season. In addition, Uncle Sam Ward had built at Lenox a home called Highwood a decade before Dorr's birth; [32] close by, the sister and step brothers of Charles Dorr had built the year after Georgie's birth an estate they named Highlawn. In later correspondence with John D. Rockefeller Jr. about landscape design, Dorr made the aesthetic point-in a letter preserved at the RAC--that "open grassy spaces like wild sheep pastures are often better in contrast to continuous woods. I used to be familiar with them-Dorn continues-wandering over the Berkshire country when I was a boy." Highlawn would eventually be absorbed into the Tanglewood Music Center but only after Dorr inherited it and had benefitted from this grand house and grounds for five decades (See Cornelia Gilder's The Tanglewood Circle, 2008). On his mother's side, Canton was the location of an eighty acre Ward family compound called Pequitside which was acquired at the same time (1853). The Canton Historical Society website displayed maps and historical data on this site; it was archival research, however, which changed our historical understanding of the importance of this place to the conservation history of New England. In 2007 I located at the MHS an intriguing unattributed manuscript in the Endicott Family Papers. After repeated readings of "Country Home at Canton," I provided stylistic evidence to MHS archivists confirming Dorr's authorship. Here Grandfather Ward-- in concert with his son Sam and son-in-law Charles-- expanded the former Ingersoll Bowditch estate during the first five years of George Dorr's life. Shortly before his eightieth birthday, Dorr revisited the property with Louise and William C. Endicott Jr. and was sufficiently moved to draft this ten- page-two thousand word--essay on the properties there of his grandparents, uncle, and parents. He emphasizes the impact of lessons learned from nature along the Neponset River "during the critical embryonic period, and the happy springtime hours spent in search and observation a greater influence [on me] than any schooling in the development of mind and character." For nearly a quarter century, Canton provided, in Dorr's own words, "a great education" in how to love the country and the wilderness about us without the need of company It was there that my brother and I spent our springs and autumns until we grew up." Coming full circle, Dorr's final years increasingly resonated with longing for the solitariness of his youthful summers in Canton. Here Dorr's passion for understanding Nature 23 March 2019 Ventfort Hall Notes for Nini from Ron: 1. The first born son of Samuel Gray Ward was delivered in Lenox in October 1844. Thomas Wren Ward II (1844-1940) visited MDI, stayed at Oldfarm in 1886 with wife Sophia and his mother, Anna Hazard Barker ward. Tom had the most enduring relationship with G.B. Dorr than any other Dorr relation. Images of Tom, Sophia, Sam, and Anna in "Ward-Perkins Papers," by Donald Fitch (p.47) The Lenox cottage industry begun at Highwood has a direct line to Oldfarm for over a century. Moreover, as I explained in my October 2018 talk, the neighboring Highlawn estate of the Dorr family draws GBD to Lenox repeatedly during the first half century of his life until he sells the property he had inherited. 2. Elizabeth Howard Ward (1873-1954), author, patron of the arts and wife of Charles Bruen Perkins (1841-1941), was the eldest child of TWW II; by marriage she allegedly became related to T. Wharton. Her marriage in 1896 to CBP brought the Ward and Perkins families together. CBP was an Oldfarm guest in 1888 & 1892 prior to his marriage; in September 1907 his wife Elizabeth visited. Another family member, Edward Newton Perkins (1883- 1983) visited with CBP, the son of Edward Clifford and Kate Cheesman Perkins. Edward is buried in Tyringham Cemetery beside his wife, Kate Riggs Perkins, "a summer resident" as reported in the Berkshire Eagle, 31 December 1948 (see "Find a Grave." online). Does Nini know more about Edward and Kate? Elizabeth and Charles had a home in Jamaica Plain, where she is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. 3. 3/19/2019 Xfinity Connect Mary Dorr photo Printout Cornelia Gilder 3/19/2019 9:26 AM Mary Dorr photo To Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Hello Ron, Thanks so much for the thumb-drive and the extra copy of the Old Farm guest book. Of course, I found my original once I asked for another. I have been working on a draft powerpoint program using my own collection and yours, and I will send it back to you shortly on the thumbdrive. It is entitled "Lenox Rusticators" One photo I would love to use is this amazing one of Mary Dorr. I only have a xerox copy of a print, and my notes say it is in a collection at the Acadia National Park. Have you ever seen it? Do you think you could procure a scan for us? One more little project for your Spring trip! Nini Also # 570 better image in ANP ONTY prints Sister of samed Mary Ward Dorr, sister-in-law of the first George B. Dorr of Highlaun and mother of the second George B. Dorr from the collection of Acade National Park 1/6/2019 Xfinity Connect Re_ New Year's greetings and a thought Printout RONALD EPP 1/6/2019 9:41 PM Re: New Year's greetings and a thought To Cornelia Gilder Hi Nini, Thank you for your thoughtful outline of how we could inform and entertain an audience at Ventfort Hall this summer. I entirely agree with your format and content. To be sure Dorr would be the backstory and not in the foreground as when I presented in October. Merging our images in a PP presentation seems right on the mark. I've lately been engaged in researching the Richards Family of Gardiner ME. As you may recall, Henry Richards was the Oldfarm architect and published unflattering comments about Mary Gray Ward Dorr. In her youth she had a very tight relationship with Julia Ward Howe which cooled over their lifetime. Howe's daughter Laura Richards and her siblings wrote extensively about family matters as you well know. I think you mentioned to me Richards family ties to Lenox (correct?) though it most likely was through Robert Richards, M.I.T. professor and his renowned wife, Ellen Swallow Richards (of Jamaica Plain) who has seized my interest since reading The Technologists by Matthew Pearl, historical fiction about the first five years of M.I.T. Regarding the timing, I am usually involved with events on MDI in late July and early August but otherwise my summer is pretty open at this time. Please keep me up to date on your plans. Delighted at this turn of events !!! 1/6/2019 Xfinity Connect Inbox Re: New Year's greetings and a thought Cornelia Gilder 1/4/2019 9:40 AM To RONALD Ron, I'd love to talk anytime you've digested the idea of a joint program. It would be a little shift in emphasis. George B. Dorr would be part of the story, but our goal would be to explain to a current Berkshire audience the many Bar Harbor-Lenox connections - Annie and John Kane, Morris Jesup, Clementina Furniss (perhaps a new name for you?), and the wonderful Mrs. Burton Harrison (a.k.a Constance Cary Harrison). We might even end with Mrs. Hartman Kuhn (intellectual friend of Edith Wharton and dweller in house across from the Church-on-the Hill) whose Maine house at Campobello was bought after her death by Sarah Delano for Franklin and Eleanor and is now a National Historic Site. My concept would be to have you talk about the people you have researched -Dorr, Jesup, Kanes - and I would introduce the subject and fill in with the other Lenox connections. I could merge our images in a powerpoint program. If you like the idea, we would work out a Tuesday date in July or August. Do you have any plans we should work around this summer? We, the program committee, are currently working on the summer Tea and Talk schedule. Sounds like fun! Nini On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:01 PM RONALD < eppster2@comcast.net> wrote: Dear Nini, How good to hear from you. What a delightful Ventfort Hall proposal! Of course I am interested. Shall we talk next week and formulate a plan? Or eait a few weeks and let the idea mature? Best wishes for this New Year. Hugs, Ron At Highwood & Highlawn: the Ward-Dorr Family friends and Lenox neighbors Charles & Catharine Sedgwick. The Hive. Ogden (1803-75) and Elizabeth (1813-88) Haggerty. Vent Fort William Aspinwall (1819-1905) and Caroline Sturgis (1819-88) Tappan. Tappan purchased Tanglewood property in 1849, including the Red House. Rented Highwood after Sam & Anna Ward departed. Tappan's rented Red House to the Hawthorns, while the Tappans moved into Highwood for eighteen months. By 1857 Highwood was sold to Louisa Norton (sister of Charles EliotNorton) and William Story Bullard (1814-97), who wanted to follow in Ward's steps- reject the merchant life--and invest in the Lenox farm. Highwood would be rented by Mrs. Henry Cram from the Bullards. George and Lili Barker (1836-1901) Higginson Jr. Mahkeenac Farm. A cousin to Anna Ward. In the late 1870's, Ward built their second Lenox home, Oakwood, on the other side of the Higginsons. Oakwood was sold and destroyed by fire in 1903 though Tom Ward continued to rent properties in Lenox after Anna's death in 1900. Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne. The Red House. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Lenox.2012. Source: C. Gilder & J.C. Peters. Hawthorne's Lenox: The Tanglewood Circle, 2008. 6/23/2019 Xfinity Connect Ventfort Hall Printout RONALD EPP 6/23/2019 11:33 AM Re: Ventfort Hall To Cornelia Gilder Hi Nini, I was able to open the slide show inventory of yours. I recall an earlier version where you indicated who would take the lead. It occurred to me that you may wish to include a map of MDI which I will include with other pictures for you to consider, including one of Mr. Dorr standing beside an aged Frances Louisa Tracy Morgan (1842-1924), the second wife of J.P. Morgan, brother of Ventfort Hall owner Sarah Spencer Morgan and her husband George Hale Morgan. Frances traveled with a large party from New York to vacation on MDI with her parents, attorney Charles and Louisa Tracy for a month long visit in 1855, when Fanny was 13 years of age. She was one of six Tracy children to make the trip though their party also included several members of the Harrison and Sarah Fay family from Massachusetts, five five members of the Rev. John S. Stone family, Theodore Winthrop, AND none other than Frederick Edwin Church, the Hudson River School painter. All toll, there were 27 travelers. Regarded as the "first group of summer visitors," many secondary sources describe them as the first summer rusticators. Moreover, the Tracy party is also described as initiators of the island cottage era--as did the Dorrs in Lenox--though the former did not acquire property. A sixty-page diary was kept by Charles Tracy and only recently (1997) was it published by the Mount Desert Historical Society as The Tracy Log Book 1855, edited by Anna A. Mazlish whom I met several years ago. The original journal (logbook) resides in the Pierpont Morgan Library thanks to it having been deposited there in 1932 by J.P. Morgan Jr., the grandson of Charles Tracy. The provenance of this journal is murky except for the fact that George B. Dorr was a 6/23/2019 Xfinity Connect Ventfort Hall Printout friend of Fanny Tracy and arranged to have the logbook copied by his secretary, with the copy given to the Jesup Memorial Library--where it still resides--after being edited by G.B.D. "to suit the mores and sensitivities" of the last decade of Dorr's life (according to the editor). Mazlish has incorporated passages excised from the original in Dorr's copy, which she calls done for the sake of "political correctness." Separately, Dorr wrote an eight-page summary of the journal which includes an interesting backstory of the life and times in which the diary was written. The stature of this journal has grown over time and greater numbers of MDI residents, visitors, and scholars view this as --according to my biography--the launch "of the Island's Gilded Age hotel era and the residential development of Bar Harbor." Of Dorr's relationship with Farmy there is only in the Dorr corpus a Oct. 5, 1931 letter from Dorr to llesboro historian William Otis Sawtelle a reference to making a copy for Sawtelle from Dorr's copy for "the original was loaned to me by Mrs. Morgan and her sister Mrs. Hoppin who were staying at Schooner Head" before the Park's establishment" (that is, before 1916). I have photos of this estate. Useful? I wonder if there is a J.P. Morgan family archive which includes letters about family life on MDI, especially during the era before Herbert L. Satterlee succeeded his father J.P. Morgan as head of the bank. For another day Best, Ron Gilder-Epp Paper: refiled resources used. July 2019 Elliott, Maud This was my Newport. Grant, Robert. A Plea for Bar Harbor. Judd, Richard . Reshaping Maine's Landscape. Smith, J.E.A. The Poet among the Hills. Warburton, Eileen. The Business of Leisure. Wescott, R.B. Early Conservation Programs and the Development of the Vacation Industry in Maine 1865-1900. 3/27/2019 Xfinity Connect e_Ventfort Hall_ Epp Notes Pt 1 Printout Cornelia Gilder 3/27/2019 10:51 AM Re: Ventfort Hall: Epp Notes. Pt. 1 To RONALD EPP Hello Ron, These are very interesting! Is the picture of Tom, Sophia, Sam and Anna in Donald Fitch's book something we might use? It could tie together the generations of Wards and help tell our story. As for the Tyringham Perkinses they have been very dear friends to the Gilders over three generations. I only met "old" Edward Perkins who died in 1983 a few times, and but there are many stories about him in George's family. They were next door neighbors to the Gilders' Four Brooks Farm here in Tyringham. Good to have some mention of William James, although we need to stay on target with the Berkshire connections as there is plenty to talk about! Same true of the Vanderbilts, beyond tying them to Elm Court Sloanes whole books could be and have been written about Vanderbilt houses!! Looking forward to anything more you do but especially the fruits of the April trip to the guest book. Can you remember to take a picture of the guest book cover? Nini On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:38 PM RONALD EPP < eppster2@comcast.net> wrote: Ji Nini, When I sent you the March 23rd email, I wrongly arrached your image of Mary Dorr when I intended to attach my first in a series of three sets of notes. Now they are attached. Yes, I received the thumb drive and outline. It is much to my liking and I agree that we should try and keep the talk to 40 minutes with no more than that number of slides. The next set of notes concerns Vanderbilt connections to Maine and much of it should be familiar to you. Please correct and relationship issues concerning family ties. I leave for Maine 6 April and return by the 12th with a half dozen appointments in play. 1/29/2019 Xfinity Connect Re Ventfort Hall program Printout RONALD EPP 1/29/2019 9:20 AM Re: Ventfort Hall program To Cornelia Gilder Hi Nini, Thanks for responding at a time when you are focused on the imminent arrival of a grandchild. I will put a copy of the Oldfarm Guest Book list that I compiled--back in July 2005--in the mail for you to examine on your return. The list is alphabetical and includes the date of each entry. If any of the 150 names have Lenlox/Stockbridge/Berkshire associations, I would be thrilled to know and discuss further. My spelling of their names may be off since I was taxed at times to decipher the handwriting. Good luck in your travels! Best, Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 7 Peachtree Terrace Farmington, CT 06032 603-491-1760 eppster2@comcast.net On January 28, 2019 at 2:31 PM Cornelia Gilder wrote: I would love to see that list!!! Writing fro the gate at JFK about to fly to Thailand for two weeks. Daughter Mellie is in labor! Exciting trip! Will look forward so much to studying the guest book list.Nini Sent from my iPhone On Jan 27, 2019, at 11:27 PM, RONALD wrote: Nini, It occured to me that you might find names in the Dorr family guest book that have Lenox/Stockbridge connections. Any associations would interest me as well. Let me know if this interests you and I will email the name list from 1880 to 1905 to you. Hope all is well on your end. Best, Ron Sent from Xfinity Connect Application https://connect.xfinity.com/appsuite/v=7.8.4-39.20181212.070352/print.html?print_1548771677725 2/2