Stockbridge sites

It may seem like we're covering a lot of ground here, but we've slowed down so much that we feel like we're relaxing. Or maybe we were moving so fast before that the way we're moving now just feels like slow motion. Either way, we're having a great time on the road again.

Today's adventure took us first to the Norman Rockwell Museum and Studio, which houses the largest collections of his paintings in the world, as well as all 323 Saturday Evening Post covers published from 1916 to 1963.

Rockwell's studio, where he typically worked 10 hours/day, 

both from live models and photographs. 

His recruited his models from the local townspeople.

In Stockbridge, we also visited the Sedgwick family plot of the local cemetery, where we found the tombstone for Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mumbet, who was the first freed slave in the United States, having sued for and won her freedom in a Massachusetts court in 1781.