We had started off the third day of our at the home of Edith Wharton, also known as The Mount. When our class got off the bus, we saw a moderately sized building and immediately thought that this was her house, but we were wrong. Our guide told her that this was actually her ranch and her house is much bigger. We walked along a dirt path with tall trees looming over us, guiding our way, until we saw it. This wasn’t a house, it was a mansion! With the help of our guide, we explored her house. There was actually a lot of similarities with her and the character Lilly Bart. Both had a love for luxury and hated New York City. Afterward, we had lunch on the picnic benches near her ranch. Our class then headed to Mount Holyoke. A small college for women where Emily Dickinson spent her first year of college. We meet with a professor who explained to us how Emily spent her year there and we speculated she left. Then we got a special look at the Mount Holyoke achieve collection. In archives, we learned what a women’s college looked like in the mid-1800’s and Mary Lion’s effort to collect donations and found this school.
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