Local historian and author, Cornelia Brooke Gilder, will share the human element of Houses of the Berkshires here at the mansion. A tea will follow her presentation.
Through her years of research on country house life in Lenox, Cornelia Brooke Gilder has learned an array of poignant, heartbreaking, inspiring and dastardly human dramas of Gilded Age Lenox. Come hear about the bereft heiress, the disappearing diplomat and the murderous butler.
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