A few months ago, I visited the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish in southwestern New Hampshire, across the Connecticut River from Vermont. I hadn’t written about a sculptor in a few months, and, until now, I’ve never written about a national park. The Saint-Gaudens site is indeed part of our glorious system of national parks from Acadia in Maine to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. At 175 acres, it’s not the smallest national park.
It is the only national park in New Hampshire. The site preserves the memory and work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), who spent summers there from 1885 until he moved to Cornish permanently in 1900. With this summer nearly over, I think it’s a good time to write about a place that serenely mixes art, nature, and pleasant rather than scorching weather.
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