jubilada

livetoroam, for book lovers the Yiddish book center next door to the Carle museum is very interesting, especially if any of you are Jewish.

cw

livetoroam, great that you're getting the book.

There is another website that may be useful for you in Boston. It's the Women's Heritage Trail, and there are 6 downtown walks that focus on women, some of whom were authors. You could pick and choose as you walk from one place to another.

Here's a link: http://bwht.org/tours/

They also have a book and an app, but if you look at the Back Bay, Downtown, Beacon Hill trails on line, you can note places significant for women authors. Take a look at Louisa May Alcott's Boston house, for instance.

Sounds like such a fun trip.

SueNYC

Make sure you go to the Harvard Independent bookstore when in Cambridge and here's my post from a trip up there last year. Some good eating recommendations.

http://thestarryeye.typepad.com/expl...nd-boston.html

A Guide Named Sue

livetoroam

Cw- great link, thanks for pointing me there.

SueNYC- noted the bookstore and took notes from your restaurants to share with the group. Thanks!

We are adjusting the schedule to add in Amherst and the Dickinson house and splitting up for some to try Eric Carle museum and some for the Yiddish book center. Thanks jubilada!

You guys are all awesome. Thanks for taking your time to give me some feedback. More always welcome!

jubilada

You are welcome. If you need lunch while visiting the carle and the Yiddish book center, you are very near Atkins farms which has very good sandwiches, salads and prepared foods in a nice setting among orchards.

jubilada

Another thought. In Hadley on your way back to rt 9 to continue to Lenox there is a terrific place called cook farm where they make excellent homemade ice cream from their own cream.

maxima

The Bookloft is an independent bookstore on Route 7 in Great Barrington. It is inside a strip mall, and has a section for second hand books too, been there since 1974. Depending on how you are driving to NY it may be on your way.

Washington Irving's house Sunnyside can be viewed by timed tours only . Check the website to see if the timing is right for you. There are also other non-literary sites in the area, and Irving's gravesite is nearby. Whether it is a must see is up to you.

Hawthorne also had a Lenox connection. He wrote a book of stories called The Tanglewood Tales, and the house he rented was on the present day grounds of Tanglewood the summer home of the boston symphony.

jubilada

Oh, this whole area is a goldmine of independent bookstores. There are a few in Amherst and Northampton, too,