Friday, August 31, 2007
A Festival Rooted in Female Ingenuity
New York Times: "In 1927 a wealthy New Englander who went by the sturdy name of Mabel Choate set out to preserve a building that housed a neglected 39-year-old social club in the central Berkshires, the Stockbridge Casino. Designed by Stanford White, the building had been described by The Pittsfield Sun in 1888 as the area’s first “symptom of dissipation and gaiety.”"
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