The Boston Globe, April 26th, 1987
PITTSFIELD - In July 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, living in nearby Lenox, wrote: "On the hither side of Pittsfield sits Herman Melville, shaping out the gigantic conception of his white whale, while the gigantic shape of Greylock looms upon him from his study window." From 1850 to 1863, Melville and his family lived at Arrowhead, the 125-acre farm in Pittsfield, which he named after the Indian artifacts he found in his fields. His neighbors included his uncle, Thomas Melville; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Nathaniel Hawthorne; David Dudley Field -- and Mount Greylock. And it was in his study at Arrowhe...
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