Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Henry Duffy, Curator, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site At the end of the nineteenth century the village of Cornish, NH flourished as the center for Classical arts in America. Brought here by the striking natural beauty of the Ascutney region, realize how the great sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the focal point of a gathering of artists, writers, musicians, political scientists, and even the President of the United States, that came to be known as “the American Athens.”