Cornish

Today Cornish is best known for its covered bridges and for having been the home of the late reclusive author J. D. Salinger, but at the turn of the 20th century the village was acclaimed as the home of the country's then-most-popular novelist, Winston Churchill (no relation to the British prime minister). His novel Richard Carvel sold more than a million copies. Churchill was such a celebrity that he hosted President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. At that time Cornish was an artistic enclave: painter Maxfield Parrish lived and worked here, and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens set up his studio here, where he created the heroic bronzes for which he is known.