Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27

framed photograph of Beethoven that
hangs over the fireplace.
Outside, on the little porch that
faces Mount Monadnock through the
marshaled armies of birches and
pines, is a rough-hewn little table
where Mr.. Mcdowell used to write
manuscript and on which careless
meddlers have carved initials. Some
of the tourists possessed Of that
awful souvenir fever have even
Clipped off pieces of the bark on the
cabin door TO take home with them
and then probably lost them before
getting home. The motto Of Mr.. Mac
Dowell, that is inscribed on the bronze
tablet which the MacDowell Club of
Boston placed on the huge stone above
his grave. seems to allude specifically
TO the cabin and what il meant to
him. 1t reads-'Ars Musica: a house
of dreams untold. it stands above the
whispering treetops and faces the set
ting sun
Edward MacDowell's grave is the
other shrine in the colony. AS one
enters the open space in the wall that
follows the roadside which leads to
the colony house, atop another of the
more than seven hills of this empire.
the ecclesiastical atmosphere OF the
aisle of slim birches that give arChlike
effect between the road and the wall
where the Uncovered. rustic gate
leads into the space that shelters the
grave of the famous composer, IS i'm
mediately noticeable. Ii is as though
the very air was different. The aisle
of birches and, again the space In
side the gate, have the glowing mo-
sale of colors provided by bluebells
phloX. Canterbury bells and fragile
alyssum. for border decoration. The
grave itself is simply marked by four
granite stones, one at each corner,
and the huge boulder that bears the
motto and the dates of the birth and
death of the composer is embroidered
with the scroll design of living vines
A tinid cottontail rabbit. munching
clover in the aisle. gave a delightful
touch OF life TO n solemn shrine In
nature, on one visit there.
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1T was in 1907 that Mrs. Mcdowell
decided to the newly organized
Edward Mcdowell Association, for
the founding of the colony. about 200
acres of ground, the house at HfIlcrest
OBTAINING only a life INTEREST,", the log
cabin, a small farmhouse, a dilapi-
dated cellarless barn, wornout
pump, tumbledown double-frame
tenement. partly renovated, one studio
in process of construction. and about
half mile of roadway fairly passable
in good weather. This was two years
after Mr.. MacDowell's development of
the serious mental disease that even
tually resulted II his death in Janu-
airy. 1908.
In Is years, according to the report
of the colony records. the association
increased it's holding to about 500
acres of ground NOW 500; 10 studios.
with two more promised now COM
pleted); woodland pageant stage with
permanent cement seating capacity
for 900 lone of the most practical and
beautiful Of the smaller outdoor thea
tersl: the guest house. remodeled from
the tenement; the Manner. for over
flow from the guest house; the
Rosary, a small residence with a large
barn used as tea house; Colony Hall.
including the Bond Assembly Hall; the
Eaves. a rooming house for feminine
colonists; Sigma Alpha Iota Cottage. a
residential annex, and the Lodge, for
men colonists.