View "The Very Hills of Heaven" While Staying in Historically Elegant Comfort and Style at Wyndhurst Manor & Club in the Western Berkshires of Massachusetts
UPDATE: In July of 2020, the Cranwell Resort & Spa reopened as Wyndhurst Manor & Club (the original name of its iconic manor) following its purchase by the Hyatt Corporation and its Miraval spa subsidiary for over $20 million in 2017. The photos contained in this post were taken before that purchase was made and some of the information - such as that on the spa - is no longer applicable. Long before Lenox, Massachusetts became the resort town and destination of tourists from all over the world that it is today, Catharine Sedgwick, one of America’s first important women writers, put pen to paper and declared it to be "a bare and ugly little village, dismally bleak and uncouth, reached only after six miles of steep and rough driving." Over time, though, her sentiments changed quite drastically and on November 1st, 1824 she wrote: "As I stand at the window and gaze on the hills that stretch before me in every variety of height and position, the sun sends hi...