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Article: Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, "the Paradise of America". (Current and Coming).
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Jenny Lind, the remarkable Swedish diva who took the United States by storm during a visit in 1851, described the region around Mount Holyoke in the Connecticut River valley as "the Paradise of America" The mountain was the region's central attraction, renowned not for its awe-inspiring height (Ralph Waldo Emerson called it a "hill;" Sylvia Plath a "mere truncated hillock"), but rather for its magnificent outlook over the bucolic landscape along the Connecticut River, and its central attraction, a natural phenomenon known as the oxbow.
Today we associate this scenery with one of the icons of American landscape painting--Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke, ...