LENOX - "In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers,'' Edith Wharton once quipped. Wharton would have known: She was one of the wealthy New Yorkers who took to the hills and the shores of New England in summer, probably bumping into city friends at every stylish soirée. Like other well-heeled members of her generation at the turn of the 20th century, the author transplanted her lifestyle to her country retreat. In Lenox, overlooking Laurel Lake, she...
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