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Lenox

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Lenox

Town and administrative centre of Berkshire County, western Massachusetts, 11 km/7 mi south of Pittsfield; population (1998 est) 5,200. It is a residential area for Pittsfield, and the centre of a popular summer resort. Among its major attractions is the Berkshire Music Festival, held each summer at Tanglewood.

The town began to attract the rich and famous from the mid-19th century. US industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie died here, in ‘Shadowbrooke’, which has 100 rooms. US writer Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The House of the Seven Gables (1851) and Tanglewood Tales (1853) in Hawthorne Cottage, on the Tanglewood estate. The 1902 summer home of the US novelist Edith Wharton is open to the public.

The Berkshire Opera Company performs in Lenox, and the town is home to a drama centre which was attended by actors Richard Dreyfuss and Sigourney Weaver.



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